NASA Workmanship Standards Technical Committee

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NASA Workmanship Standards Technical Committee
Area of responsibility Manufacturing Processes
for, and Acceptance of, Flight Hardware Chairperso
n Michael Delmont/GSFC/306
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Structure Charter

• The NASA Workmanship Standards Technical
  Committee(WSTC) comprises members from all NASA
  Centers, NASA HQ, and ESA.
• Communicates via monthly teleconferences and
  semi-annual tabletop meetings.
• Protect the reliability of space flight hardware
  by providing projects with manufacturing
  standards appropriate for the hardwares expected
  operating environment.

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Processes

• Per OMB Circular A-119, priority is given to
  identifying Voluntary Consensus Standards (VCS)
  to provide Agency projects with the appropriate
  standard(s).
• If found, obtain membership on the relevant
  committee to represent NASAs interests.
• If not found, solicit the appropriate VCS
  organization to see if theyre willing to
  initiate a VCS for the discipline (again, with
  WSTC participation on the committee).
• If theyre unwilling or unable, begin process of
  writing a NASA Technical Standard.

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Coordination

• Ultimate goal is to find VCSs that suit all
  Centers needs unconditionally second choice is
  to supplement a VCS thats close final option is
  to generate a NASA Technical Standard (NTS).
• Each Center has their expert on the relevant
  technology review the VCS and submit comments.
• Each comment is discussed and dispositioned
  during monthly telecon or semi-annual tabletop
  meetings.
• Based on resolution of comments, the VCS is
  adopted unconditionally, or a supplement (or NTS)
  is drafted.

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Coordination (contd)

• The process for generating a VCS supplement or
  NTS is similar to the initial review process for
  a VCS.
• Draft is prepared internally and distributed to
  WSTC for review comment.
• This is repeated until all comments are
  dispositioned to the satisfaction of the
  submitter(s) and the WSTC.
• Adoption, whether a VCS, VCS supplement, or NTS
  is approved by the HQ Code Q Associate
  Administrator based on recommendation from WSTC
  Chairperson.
• NASA Preferred Technical Standards web site
  updated based on adoption notice from HQ/Code
  Q/AA.