Our Documentation

In order to allow an unequivocal implementation by nations, agreements reached in AC/250 will be properly documented. Most agreements are published as Standardisation Agreements (STANAGs) or Allied Publications (AP). The AC/250/CPG is the owner of two NATO Standardization Agreements, STANAGs 4107 and 4174.

• STANAG 4107 - Mutual Acceptance of Government Quality Assurance and Usage of the Allied Quality Assurance Publications
• STANAG 4174 - Allied Reliability and Maintainability Publications

Under the direction of these STANAGs, Allied Publications for Quality, Maintainability and Reliability are as follows:

Quality

• AQAP 100 (Ed3) - General Guidance on NATO Quality Assurance
• AQAP 110 (Ed2) - NATO QA Requirements for Design, Development and Production
• AQAP 119 (Ed2) - NATO Guide to AQAPs 110, 120 and 130
• AQAP 120 (Ed2) - NATO Quality Assurance Requirements for Production
• AQAP 130 (Ed2) - NATO Quality Assurance Requirements for Inspection and Test
• AQAP 131 (Ed1) - NATO Quality Assurance Requirements for Final Inspection
• AQAP 150 (Ed2) - NATO Quality Assurance Requirements for Software Development
• AQAP 159 (Ed2) - Guidance for use of AQAP 150
• AQAP 160 (Ed1) - NATO integrated quality requirements for software throughout the life cycle
  • Full text of AQAP 160 is available from the British Standards Institute
• AQAP 169 (Ed1) - NATO Guidance on the use of AQAP-160 Edition 1
• AQAP 170 (Ed2) - NATO Guide for the Delegation of Government Quality Assurance  

Reliability and Maintainability

• ARMP 1 (Ed2) - NATO Requirements for Reliability and Maintainability
• ARMP 4 (Ed2) - Guidance for Writing NATO R&M Requirements Documents
• ARMP 6 (Ed1) - In-Service R&M
• ARMP 7 (Ed1) - NATO R&M Terminology Applicable to ARMPs