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Certification Liaison and Final Compliance

Bringing the evidence together for the certification authority and the aircraft or system integrator: the hardware and software accomplishment summaries, the configuration indexes, conformity of the item to its data, resolution of open problem reports, and the final review that closes the compliance findings.

Where this stage sits

This stage with its neighbours. Each row is a discipline active here, shaded by how mature its work is by the end of each stage.

Stage

^A08 Environmental and Equipment Qualification

^A09 Certification Liaison and Final ComplianceYou are here

^A10 Production and Production Approval

Certification, program and supply milestones

FAFirst article accepted PAProduction approved

Hardware and software assurance milestones

VCVerification complete QCTR3Qualification complete FCFinal compliance review

Program and certification management^A

0.8

1.0^A

Systems engineering and safety assessment^AO

1.0

Freeze

Airborne electronic hardware design^A

1.0

Freeze

Airborne software development^A

1.0

Freeze

Process assurance and quality^A

1.0

Configuration and change management^A

1.0

Freeze

Tools and design environment^O

1.0

Freeze

Environmental qualification and compliance^A

1.0

Components, supply and export^A

1.0

Production and manufacturing test^A

0.5

0.8

1.0^A

Key0.0Planned0.3Early draft0.5Draft0.8Feature complete1.0CompleteFreezeFrozenFaded block: still at the step shown before it, Held below Complete or Maintained under change control once complete or frozenFreeze or sign-off pointMilestone for one item; the rest of the work carries onMilestone gateTRTechnical readiness review (TR): a gate that checks the technology is ready before the next commitment.You are here: Certification Liaison and Final ComplianceAI impactDisruption (red)Augmentation (blue)Opportunity (green)How AI is changing the workWhat the steps mean What the codes mean

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Stages

Environmental and Equipment Qualification^A
Certification Liaison and Final Compliance (this stage)^A
Production and Production Approval^A

Certification, program and supply milestones

Hardware and software assurance milestones

Verification complete (VC)
Qualification complete (QC) (technical readiness review TR3)
Final compliance review (FC)

Disciplines

Program and certification management^A
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 0.8, Feature complete. Verification review held and the compliance evidence gathered with the qualification results; accomplishment summaries drafted.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity 1.0, Complete. Accomplishment summaries accepted at the final review, compliance shown, and in-service support agreed with customers.^A
- Production and Production Approval: maturity 1.0, Complete. Accomplishment summaries accepted at the final review, compliance shown, and in-service support agreed with customers.
Systems engineering and safety assessment^AO
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 1.0, Complete. System safety assessment closed on the verification results for this baseline, with the common cause analysis complete.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Safety assessment part of the certification baseline; an in-service problem or change gets a change impact analysis against it before release.
- Production and Production Approval: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Safety assessment part of the certification baseline; an in-service problem or change gets a change impact analysis against it before release.
Airborne electronic hardware design^A
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 1.0, Complete. Hardware verified on the frozen design, every requirement covered, and confirmed in its environment by qualification.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Design data baselined in the hardware configuration index at the final compliance review; the top-level drawing and production data are released from it, and any change goes through change impact analysis.
- Production and Production Approval: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Design data baselined in the hardware configuration index at the final compliance review; the top-level drawing and production data are released from it, and any change goes through change impact analysis.
Airborne software development^A
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 1.0, Complete. Executable object code verified on the target, with structural coverage closed on the frozen build.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Software baselined in the software configuration index; changes in service go through problem reports and change impact analysis.
- Production and Production Approval: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Software baselined in the software configuration index; changes in service go through problem reports and change impact analysis.
Process assurance and quality^A
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 1.0, Complete. Every development and verification transition audited against the plans with findings closed; the conformity review and production quality audits build on that record.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity 1.0, Complete. Every development and verification transition audited against the plans with findings closed; the conformity review and production quality audits build on that record.
- Production and Production Approval: maturity 1.0, Complete. Every development and verification transition audited against the plans with findings closed; the conformity review and production quality audits build on that record.
Configuration and change management^A
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 1.0, Complete. Verified baseline recorded with every problem report dispositioned, and the qualified configuration identified.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Certification baseline frozen in the configuration indexes; any later change is classified, assessed and archived, so any delivered item can be rebuilt from its data.; Certification baseline frozen
- Production and Production Approval: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Certification baseline frozen in the configuration indexes; any later change is classified, assessed and archived, so any delivered item can be rebuilt from its data.
Tools and design environment^O
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 1.0, Complete. Tool qualification data complete for every tool whose output is not otherwise verified, and the build environment controlled so builds can be reproduced.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Design environment baselined in the life cycle environment configuration index and archived, so a later change is rebuilt with the same tools.
- Production and Production Approval: maturity Freeze, Frozen. Design environment baselined in the life cycle environment configuration index and archived, so a later change is rebuilt with the same tools.
Environmental qualification and compliance^A
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 1.0, Complete. Environmental, electromagnetic and lightning tests passed with deviations dispositioned, and the reliability and derating analysis consistent with the safety assessment.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity 1.0, Complete. Environmental, electromagnetic and lightning tests passed with deviations dispositioned, and the reliability and derating analysis consistent with the safety assessment.
Components, supply and export^A
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 1.0, Complete. Every part on the qualified design approved with its evidence, supplier controls and counterfeit avoidance in place for production, and obsolescence monitored to the last-time buy.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity 1.0, Complete. Every part on the qualified design approved with its evidence, supplier controls and counterfeit avoidance in place for production, and obsolescence monitored to the last-time buy.
- Production and Production Approval: maturity 1.0, Complete. Every part on the qualified design approved with its evidence, supplier controls and counterfeit avoidance in place for production, and obsolescence monitored to the last-time buy.
Production and manufacturing test^A
- Environmental and Equipment Qualification: maturity 0.5, Draft. Production test procedures drafted and correlated with qualification testing.
- Certification Liaison and Final Compliance: maturity 0.8, Feature complete. Production line and test ready, and the first production unit built for first article inspection.
- Production and Production Approval: maturity 1.0, Complete. First article accepted against the released design data and production released, with conforming units delivered.^A

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