Technical Data

One of the 12 Integrated Product Support (IPS) Elements. Represents recorded information of a scientific or technical nature, regardless of form or character (such as equipment technical manuals and engineering drawings), engineering data, specifications, standards, and Data Item Descriptions (DID). Technical data addresses data rights and data delivery as well as use of any proprietary data as part of this element. A data management system established within the Integrated Data Environment (IDE) can allow every activity involved with the program to cost-effectively create, store, access, manipulate, and exchange digital data. It includes, at minimum, the data management needs of the System Engineering process, modeling and simulation activities, test and evaluation strategy, support strategy, and other periodic reporting requirements. It also includes as-maintained bills of material and system configuration by individual system identification code or “tail number.”