The development and maintenance of national standards for defining and documenting a product throughout its life cycle and related certification activities. This shall be accomplished by: 1) recognizing the continuing need for existing standards regardless of the source medium (e.g., paper, film, and digital) or method of preparation (e.g., manual or computer generated); 2) providing standardization where a variety of practices exist within industry and government; 3) providing standards for new concepts and technologies; and 4) supporting and coordinating development and harmonizing of standards with responsible standardization bodies, including ANSI, ISO, and government agencies.
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