larry(at)macsmachine.com
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 Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 11:37 am Post subject: [Possible Spam] Re: Zenith701801-List:AN etc specifications |
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Hi Raymond,
Having worked for the Defense Department, I can relate what happened to
Government specifications. The cost of purchasing materials and supplies
was costing too much, so Govt Specs were replaced with "performance
requirements". This was supposed to save lots on the basis that if you
could
build a trailer with toothpicks and meet the same result in performance
as the original, you'd save money. For all the same reasoning it has not
always worked out that way due to a need to test everything at each
contract. Bad for the taxpayer, but good for government job security.
People that wrote specifications now write performance requirements, no
job loss, but lots of new test and inspection engineering budgets.
Very little of what exists in Government specification is up to date or
even applicable today. Chinese hardware took care of that.
Larry McFarland 601HDS at www.macsmachine.com
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raymondj wrote:
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<raymondj(at)frontiernet.net>
As I understand it, many of the mil spec documents (AN, MS, NAS, etc)
have been dropped and SAE standards have been substituted for use in
contracts. Before this change were the specification documents
available as government publications? Perhaps the type that might be
available for download. I have been searching for a source of the
specifications without paying the SAE organization for their
documents. I have not been able to find any of the mil spec
documents, only documents referring contractors to the SAE documents.
Any and all information on this topic will be appreciated.
Raymond Julian
Kettle River, MN
"Hope for the best,
but prepare for the worst."
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