Downloaded from https://www.everyspec.com MIL-STD-31000A NATIONAL AEROSPACE STANDARDS NAS 3500 Technical Data Package: Composition, Communication, and Application (Copies of this document are available from the Aerospace Industries Association of America, inc. 1000 WILSON BLVD, ARLINGTON, VA 22209) 2.4 Order of precedence. Unless otherwise noted herein or in the contract, in the event of a conflict between the text of this document and the references cited herein, the text of this document takes precedence. Nothing in this document, however, supersedes applicable laws and regulations unless a specific exemption has been obtained. 3. DEFINITIONS.
3.1 For the purposes of this standard, the following definitions apply: 3.1.1 Associated list. A tabulation of engineering information pertaining to an item depicted on an engineering drawing or on a set of drawings. For example: parts list, data list, and index list. (See ASME Y14.24). 3.1.2 Commercial And Government Entity (CAGE) code. A five character code listed in Cataloging Handbook H4/H8, Commercial and Government Entity Code, which is assigned to commercial and Government activities that manufacture or develop items, or provide services or supplies for the Government.
When used with a drawing number or part number, the CAGE Code designates the design activity from whose series the drawing or part number is assigned. The CAGE Code was previously called manufacturer's code, code identification number or Federal Supply Code for Manufacturers (FSCM). 3.1.3 Commercial drawings. Drawings prepared by a commercial design activity, in accordance with that activity's documentation standards and practices, to support the development and manufacture of a commercially developed product. 3.1.4 Commercial item.
A product , material, code , component, subsystem, or system sold or traded to the general public in the course of normal business operations at prices based on established catalog or market prices. (FAR 11.001, definition of Commercial Product) 3.1.5 Company standard. A company document, which establishes engineering and technical limitations and applications for items, materials, processes, methods, design s and engineering practices unique to that company. (NOTE: Company standards are not considered to be non-Government standards.) 3.1.6 Competent manufacturer.
A manufacturer that has demonstrated the capability to produce similar products at the same state of the art in the same or similar lines of technology. 3.1.7 Computer software. Computer programs, source code, source code listings, object code listings, design details, algorithms, processes, flow charts, formulae and related material that would enable the software to be reproduced, recreated, or recompiled. Computer software does not include computer data bases or computer software documentation. (DFARS Clause 252.227-7014) 3.1.8 Computer software documentation.
Owner’s manuals, user’s manuals, installation instructions, operating instructions, and other similar items, regardless of storage medium, that explain the capabilities 5