MIL-HDBK-61A: Configuration Identification

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SECTION 5

QUESTIONS THIS SECTION WILL ANSWER Para.

2. What is the configuration identification process and why is it necessary? 5.1

3. What are the performance attributes of the configuration identification process? 5.1.1, 5.1.2

4. What inputs provide the information needed to make intelligent configuration identification decisions? 5.1

5. What is a Product Structure; how is it determined and used? 5.2

6. What are configuration items? Does the Government establish a baseline for all configuration items? 5.5, 5.5.1, 5.5.2

7. What documents should the Government be concerned about? Which should be left to contractor discretion? 5.4

8. How does the Government select the appropriate document type to specify performance? How does the contractor? 5.4.1, 5.4.2

9. How shall Performance Specifications be used? What are the different types of performance specifications? 5.4.2

10. What is a Detail Specification and when may it be used? 5.4.2

11. What visibility into the contractor's design solution does the Government need? 5.4.5, 5.4.4

12. How do we determine what baselines should be established? 5.5

13. How many levels of baselining are necessary? How do they evolve over the life cycle? 5.5.1, 5.5.2

14. How should documents be identified? 5.6, 5.6.1, 5.6.2

15. How should items be physically identified? To what level does the Government need discrete identifiers? 5.6.5, 5.6.4

16. What is the engineering release process? Why is it important? 5.7, 5.7.1

17. How does the Government determine the appropriate level of detailed design data to acquire? 5.72

18. What data content and functional capability should be expected from an engineering release process? 5.7.2

19. How are external and internal interfaces defined? 5.8

20. What is the relationship of interface control documents/drawings to configuration documentation? 5.8.1, 5.8.2

21. How involved should the Government be in the management of interfaces? 5.8.1, 5.8.2

There was no question 1 posed in MIL-HDBK-61A

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