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Standardization achieves the greatest practical uniformity of items, materials and practices to insure the availability, and minimize the cost associated with managing, using, and maintaining similar items of supply used in common applications.
Standardization is the means to provide the war fighter with equipment that is interoperable, reliable, and technologically superior. Items bought to specifications usually require less lead time, reduced stock levels, and result in fewer back orders. In addition, testing costs can be reduced for first article testing using qualified products lists.
The DoD maintains more than a 100,000 standardization documents including federal, military, commercial and industrial standards. Over 38,000 of these are in use today. Approximately, 6,500 of these documents relate to the commodities bought by DLA Aviation such as intrumentation, control cable system components, bearings, batteries, terminal lugs, etc.
 Specifications and Standards Program. DLA Aviation directly maintains approximately 1,300 documents taking a proactive approach to keep all 38,000 plus DoD specifications in a status current for procurement.
Qualified Products List (QPL) Program. Qualifies and monitors more than 65 QPL sources for 30 QPLs associated with wire rope, cable, pulleys, bearings, gas cylinder valves, accumulators, indicators, and electrodes. Conducts periodic audits of manufacturing facilities for these sources.
Non-Government Standard (NGS) Bodies and Industry Partnerships. Provides government representation on various NGS and industry committees. Currently, there are over 8,700 NGS documents from over 100 organizations. DLA Aviation focuses on the following:
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