The FAA Standards Website
Overview
Sponsored by Operations Planning, Systems Engineering (ATO-P, SE), the FAA Standards website provides the FAA community, as well as the general public, with information regarding existing standards that may be applicable to the NAS Architecture and to aviation in general. This website provides links to online documents containing standards promulgated by the FAA as well as a searchable database of information pertaining to numerous standards issued by the FAA, other government bodies, and non-government sources.
The Standards Database provides the following kinds of information:
- Standards Bodies. These include governmental and non-governmental organizations dedicated to the promulgation of standards (e.g. National Institute of Standards and Technology, International Organization for Standardization), other government agencies that issue and maintain standards (e.g. Department of Defense), and private sector corporations (e.g. Microsoft). The application provides World Wide Web links to these organizations, where available.
- Specific Published Standards. Individual documents that have been published by the various standards bodies are identified by source, title, description, and document number.
- Indexing and Cross-referencing. With the use of relational database management technology, the Standards Database provides capabilities for enumerating standards documents according to source, subject matter, category, specialty, and individual document number.
The The FAA Standards and Handbooks page contains links to selected FAA Standards and other documentation related to the NAS.
About Standards in General
The Federal Standardization Manual defines a Standard as a document that establishes uniform engineering and technical requirements for processes, procedures, practices and methods. Because most changes are evolutionary the influence of Standards on most processes and products is pervasive. Many NAS equipment requirements are also determined by the Standards invoked on statement-of-works (SOWs) and subsystem specifications.
Commercial Standards are already being used and predominate the Standards used for NAS equipment that are invoked by lower level specifications.
- In the commercial world there may be several Standards available to satisfy a requirement that are often incompatible with one another.
- Equipment manufactured using different Commercial Standards can be made to interface successfully although sometimes at a sacrifice to cost and the integration methods used.
- Standards Profiles are sets of consistent Commercial Standards that companies develop for their own use. Profiles are a response to the diversity and competing nature of Standards in the commercial market place.
Many FAA Standards are in the process of being updated for one or more of the following reasons:
- Existing Standards and practices sometimes reflect developmental rather than COTS solutions.
- DOD has reformed its acquisition practices and has cancelled many previously referenced Military Standards used by the FAA.
- Many Standards have not been updated or maintained to reflect current technology or practices.
Recently Added Standards and Handbooks
- FAA-HDBK-006A - Federal Aviation Administration Reliability, Maintainability, and Availability (RMA) Handbook, January 7, 2008
- FAA-HDBK-0007 - Federal Aviation Administration Handbook: FAA Data Standardization, January 4, 2008
- FAA-STD-025f - Federal Aviation Administration Standard: Preparation of Interface Documentation, November 30, 2007
- NAS-SR-1000 (Functional) - NAS System Requirements Specification (Functional View), June 4, 2007
Related FAA Links
- The FAA Acquisition System Toolset (FAST) provides tailored policy, guidance, instructions, examples, best practices, lessons learned, references, and other related information.
- The Aviation Safety (AVS) Flight Standards Service provides information for Airline and Airport operators, FAA Employees, Pilots, Aircraft Owners and the General Aviation community.
- The NAS Document Control Center is the principal repository for NAS Configuration data and baselined documentation.
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