Technical Standards Products Informing NASA Quality Practices

• A document that establishes uniform engineering and technical requirements
for processes, procedures, practices, and methods that have been adopted as
standard, including requirements for item selection and application, or criteria
for its design.
• External standards are generalized solutions to industry problems. Internal
standards are specific to an organization (NASA), though they may be adapted
from external standards
• Standards become requirements for a NASA project when they are called out,
subject to waiver or tailoring