The following information regarding the DoD Single Stock Point (DODSSP) and DoD Index of Specifications and Standards (DoDISS) was recently updated with the assistance of the Defense Standardization Program Office (DSPO).
1. The DoD Single Stock Point (DODSSP) website (http://dodssp.daps.dla.mil/) is no longer available. Does this mean the DODSSP no longer exists?
The mission of having a single source for DoD specifications and standards still exists; however, these days the primary method of distribution is via the Web through one of several ASSIST websites. In fact, when the draft revised DoD Manual 4120.24 is published, the name of the support team at DLA Document Services (formerly known as Defense Automated Production Services (DAPS)) will be changed from the DOD Single Stock Point (DODSSP) to the DSP Automation Support Office.
2. If so, can you please advise what the new link to the DoD Single Stock Point (DODSSP) site is?
When the Director, DLA started the "we are one DLA" initiative, the DAPS logo, which appeared on the DODSSP website become obsolete, as all DLA Primary Level Field Activities now use the same DLA logo. So there was a need to modify the former DODSSP website. Upon examination, DLA realized that most of the information on the DODSSP website was either obsolete or consisted of links to the various ASSIST websites. The only information not duplicated in ASSIST was a bimonthly report known as the ASSIST Update. This report (formerly known as the DODISS Notice) lists the documents published in ASSIST in any given 15-day period. (This report shows the date a document was actually published in ASSIST, which is often different from the dates on the publication.) So, there is no new link to the DODSSP website, since it no longer exists; however, the ASSIST Updates are now available from a link on ASSIST Quick Search (http://quicksearch.dla.mil) and from within ASSIST (https://assist.dla.mil).
3. Is the DoD Index of Specifications and Standards (DoDISS) still available?
No, it is no longer published (see attached cancellation notice, dated 22 March 2007, downloaded from ASSIST). At one time, the DODISS was published once a year, supplements were published every two months, and the DODISS Notices were published every two weeks. When DLA canceled the DODISS, almost everyone had stopped subscribing to it, as the ASSIST database, from which the DODISS was derived, is updated daily. So the most current information is always in ASSIST and access to ASSIST is more readily available than access to the DODISS ever was. Hence the decision to cancel it.
4. If the DoDISS is no longer available, how do workforce members access the DoD Index of Specifications and Standards (DoDISS)?
Workforce members should use either to ASSIST or ASSIST Quick Search. ASSIST is the preferred website, especially for DoD employees or DoD contractors with CAC cards, as there are many powerful features available to users in either on the public-restricted or private DoD network than are available to users on the public Quick Search website. All ASSIST users can generate custom reports or establish profiles to receive automatic alerts when documents of specific interest to them are modified, being reviewed in draft form, or planned for cancellation. DoD employees with CAC cards can also view certain controlled distribution documents, a feature that is not available on the other ASSIST websites.
In addition to the ASSIST Quicksearch site listed above, the ASSIST homepage at https://assist.dla.mil. ASSIST (Acquisition Streamlining & Standardization Information System) is the official source for specifications and standards used by the Department of Defense and it always has the most current information. Over 111,000 technical documents are indexed in ASSIST, and the ASSIST document database houses over 180,000 PDF files associated with about 82,000 of the indexed documents. There are more than 33,000 active ASSIST user accounts and over 6,000 active Shopping Wizard accounts. The ASSIST-Online web site provides free public access to most technical documents in the ASSIST database. The ASSIST Shopping Wizard provides a way to order documents from the DODSSP that are not available in digital form.
ASSIST-Online is a robust, comprehensive web site used by standardization management activities to develop, coordinate, and manage defense and federal specifications and standards, military handbooks, commercial item descriptions, data item descriptions, and related technical documents prepared in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Defense Standardization Program (DSP). In addition to DoD-prepared documents, ASSIST also has U.S.-ratified international standardization agreements, such as NATO STANAGs.
