New DoD Quality Assurance Practices

摘要

This paper reports the results of a three-year study by the Institute for DefenseAnalyses (IDA) called Government-Industry Standardization of Product Acceptance Based on Process Data. The purpose of the study was to help devise a new Department of Defense (DoD) approach to quality assurance practices. The paper includes a new standard developed under the task, acceptable to both DoD and industry, that allows DoD to move away from accepting product by end-item inspection to accepting product based on the contractor's quality system and use of process controls. The paper recommends the elimination of three military standards and a specification, and discusses IDA's role in DoD's decision to authorize the use of the ISO 9000 series of quality system standards.