TO 00-5-17, TECHNICAL MANUAL USERS MANUAL USAF COMPUTER PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION NUMBERING (CPIN) SYSTEM (15 MAY 2003)

TO 00-5-17, TECHNICAL MANUAL USERS MANUAL USAF COMPUTER PROGRAM IDENTIFICATION NUMBERING (CPIN) SYSTEM (15 MAY 2003). The US Air Force has applied the principles of configuration management to software, providing the same degree of management control presently provided for hardware. ACPINS provides a system to identify, manage, requisition, and distribute MCS for NSS, which must be designated and managed as configuration items. Determination and designation of the CSCI is the responsibility of the software manager. A CSCI may consist of a single computer program, or a group of computer programs, which satisfies an end-use function. The configuration of a CSCI is identified through baseline documentation. The software manager may choose to identify the software at a level lower than the CSCI. The software item, either a CSCI, or a Computer Software Component (CSC), (both referred to in this manual as CSCIs), and related documentation will be assigned a CPIN. The data system that is used for assigning and controlling the CPIN is the USAF ACPINS.