Once a DOD program is baselined and in production with delivered documentation, it is
quite costly to change documents or tools.  Aside from your internal change notices, an

ECP (engineering change proposal) and/or NOR (notice of revision) needs to be written
and approved by the customer.  On mature programs, many times the design part of the
contract is complete with no funding for efforts like this.  The customer may have sent

your documention out to other competitors who are building your designs, and if you
make
a change, that change info needs to get to these other manufacturers.  This all takes
time
and money, which there is none allocated.  Also, there are times that a DOD contractor
is building a system designed by some other company, and your contract is "Build To
Print"
where you have no control of the design.
In the commercial world it's relatively easy to make the changes; In the DOD world when

our tax dollars are at work, all changes need to be justified and the big paper trail
to
track the tax dollars spent becomes enormous.

Just a few thoughts I had

"Stephen R. Gregory" wrote:

> I'm gonna rant...
>
> I know the documentation paper trail can be be daunting with DOD assemblies,
> but is correcting the design to specify current assembly standards too much
> to ask? It can only enhance the assembly reliabilty...
>
> I am expecting replies from lazy designers that don't want to "buck the
> system"... I'm saying that to get some people to speak-up.....
>
> Not being derogatory, just trying to get real...
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
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