I don't know if there is an "easiest way," but I do know that Texas 
Instruments signed a "block change" contract modification with the US 
Department of Defense in which TI replaced about 65 variations of 38 base 
specifications for product assembly with a set of 8 commercial ones. 

I know that may sound simple, but it took a dedicated team of four TI 
staff spent 2.5 years to develop a strategy and to educate the rest of 
the company.

The DoD does not require its contractors to build to J-STD-001 (A or B 
revisions) or any other electronics soldering process document (if you 
disagree, please carefully re-read that sentence). It cancelled 
MIL-STD-2000 without replacement, indicating in a letter to Dave Bergman, 
IPC's VP of technical programs, that "citing any soldering process standards 
as a requirement in Defense procurements is antithetical to [then] US 
Secretary of Defense Dr. William Perry's mandate that the DoD specify 
requirements in performance terms only." (Brackets mine.)

Thus, although J-STD-001 is viewed by the DoD as the "accepted industry 
practice" for bulding reliable hardware, the DoD has "no plans" to adopt 
it as a standard.

You may contact Jim Woodford at the DoD Acquisition Practices office for 
help on how to specify soldering processes in military contracts. His phone 
no. is 703-695-7580; email: [log in to unmask]

Mike Buetow
IPC Staff
2215 Sanders Road
Northbrook, IL 60062
P: 847-509-9700, ext. 335
F: 847-509-9798
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On Thu, 6 Mar 1997, Mient van der Molen wrote:

> Who knows the easiest way to change my military contracts from
> MIL-STD-2000 to ANSI-J-STD-001.
> 
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