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The process of identifying and documenting characteristics of a product.
What is Configuration Identification?
The abbreviation "CDM" stands for this.
What is Configuration and Data Management?
The name of the unmanned combat air vehicle developed by Northrop Grumman that became one of the first operational drones.
What is RQ-4 Global Hawk?
This program plan generally establishes the baseline requirements for configuration management activities.
What is a Configuration Management Plan (CMP)?
They are responsible for ensuring data requirements are accurately defined for a project.
Who is the Data Manager? (or designated project authority)
A fixed reference point in the product lifecycle that captures an agreed-upon configuration of a product or system at a specific time.
What is a Configuration Baseline?
The abbreviation "CSA" stands for this.
What is Configuration Status Accounting?
The name of the notable stealth bomber, renowned for its triangular shape and advanced stealth technology.
What is the B-2 Spirit? (commonly referred to as the Stealth Bomber)
The document number of the Aerospace Quality Management System Standard.
What is AS9100?
The authoritative source of data in a system or organization.
What is the Data Repository? (or System of Record)
The group responsible for approving changes to a configuration item.
What is the designated Change Authority? (e.g., CCB)
The abbreviation "PLM" stands for this.
What is Product Lifecycle Management?
The name of Northrop Grumman's reusable spacecraft that supplies the International Space Station (ISS).
What is the Cygnus spacecraft?
The acronym "PrOP" stands for this.
What are Principles and Operating Practices?
The process of determining who can access, use, or distribute data.
What is Data Access Control?
A review performed to assess a product's current configuration against its documented baseline.
What a Configuration Audit? (e.g., FCA/PCA)
The abbreviation "CCB" stands for this.
What is Configuration Control Board?
Northrop Grumman developed this; it was used by the Apollo 11 astronauts to land on the Moon in 1969.
What is the Lunar Module (LM)?
The document number of the Industry Standard for Configuration Management.
What is EIA-649?
This provides descriptive, structural, and administrative information about data to ensure traceability, accessibility, and proper use.
What is Metadata?
The systematic process of managing changes to configuration items, ensuring that changes are reviewed, approved, and implemented with traceability.
What is Configuration Control?
The abbreviation "FCA/PCA" stands for this.
What is Functional & Physical Configuration Audit?
Northrop Grumman-led collaboration designed and built this, a replacement for the Hubble telescope.
What is the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST)?
The document number of the Industry Standard for Data Management.
What is GEIA-859?
The control of data versions throughout its lifecycle.
What is the Configuration Management of Data?