Configuration Management Glossary

A set of information that must be released as a whole and can be released separately from any other dataset.
_{Source: The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification}

1. An authorization for a planned non-conformance, that allows the manufacturer to depart from the released part specification for a specified period or specific number of units.
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2. A specific written authorization, granted prior to the manufacture of an item, to depart from a particular requirement(s) of an item's current approved configuration documentation for a specific number of units or a specified period of time. (A deviation differs from an engineering change in that an approved engineering change requires corresponding revision of the item's current approved configuration documentation, whereas a deviation does not.)
_{Source: MIL-STD-973}

A type of dataset.
_{Source: The Essential Guide to Part Re-Identification}