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Higher-Level U.S. Standards

April 13, 2006

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In the previous discussion, we mentioned that the U.S. government is moving closer to having ISO as the one, so to speak, standard to replace its major quality assurance standard for complex military systems and hardware, MIL-Q-9858.

But a funny thing about the government, particularly the military, is that old habits die hard. Two quality assurance standards, MIL-I-45208 (An Inspection System) and MIL-Q-9858A (A Quality Program), have been canceled, but live on in contract terminology:

• MIL-I-45208
• MIL-Q-9858A

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