MIL-STD-973 (NOTICE 3), MILITARY STANDARD: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT (13 JAN 1995) [S/S BY EIA-649]

MIL-STD-973 (NOTICE 3), MILITARY STANDARD: CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT (13 JAN 1995) [S/S BY EIA-649]., This Notice of Change is being issued to facilitate the transition to the electronic data environment for the storage, transfer and maintenance of information. It is also an interim measure pending completion of a new national consensus non-Government standard (NGS) on Configuration Management, a DoD Practices Appendix to that NGS, plus simultaneous completion of an Interface Standard containing the DoD’s information requirements only. a. To facilitate electronic commerce, all requirements to use DD Forms for the submittal of data have been deleted. The replacement requirement is Contractor format. b. All documents cited as mandatory reference documents have been deleted from the standard in support of the recommendation on “Excessive Referencing “ contained in the Process Action Team on Military Specifications and Standards’ Blueprint for Change Report. Some of these documents are now cited in Section 6 as useful sources of information for specific topic areas, while other information has been imported into the text.