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Acquisition
Streamlining and
Standardization
Information
System
(ASSIST) is a comprehensive web site providing
public access to standardization documents over the Internet
ASSIST-Quick Search
provides direct access to Defense and Federal specifications and
standards available in the official DoD repository, the
ASSIST database. Enter your search criteria in one of the
search fields to locate documents available for distribution by the
DODSSP Click on the label next to each search field block for a
description and examples of search criteria.
(Please note that you can enter search criteria in more than
one search field; however, Quick Search will then only find
documents that satisfy all of the specified search
criteria. If your search doesn't yield the results you expected,
please try again using only one search parameter, such as the
document number.)
The Document ID refers to the
alphanumeric identifier associated with a military, federal, or
non-government specification or standard. This value includes slash sheet, section, part, or
volume numbers as well as revision, amendment, notice, or supplement
symbols.
ASSIST Quick Search provides the ability to search against Document ID
values.
Partial values are accepted.
The results list returned by the
search will include all documents that have a Document ID beginning with
or exactly matching the search value specified.
Examples:
Use MIL-C-51 to find:
MIL-C-5100
MIL-C-5105
MIL-C-5126C NOT 2
MIL-C-5188A
MIL-C-5191B(4) NOT 2
The Document Number refers to the numeric
series assigned to a document.
Any given Document Number may be
associated with a number of different document categories such as
military specifications, standards, handbooks, and bulletins as well as
CIDS, Federal specifications and standards, and non-government
standards.
ASSIST-Quick Search provides the ability to search against documents
associated with a specific Document Number series.
The results list
returned by the search will include all corresponding slant sheets, if
applicable.
This search feature is particularly useful when you remember
the Document Number but don't know the document prefix (e.g., MIL-C vs.
MIL-PRF vs. MIL-DTL) that may have changed as a result of Acquisition
Reform initiatives.
Partial values are not accepted.
Examples:
Search against 1361 to find:
MIL-I-1361C NOT 1
MIL-STD-1361A NOT 1
W-S-001361 NOT 1
QPL-1361-38
STANAG-1361 ED. 1
A document title is always associated
with a given specification or standard to describe the subject or
content of the document.
he DODSSP captures title information when new
documents are created and indexed in the ASSIST or when changes to
existing documents include updates to title information.
ASSIST captures
up to 256 characters for document cataloging purposes and uses titles to
annually produce the DODISS Part I - Alphabetical Listing, which lists
specifications and standards alphabetically sorted by title.
ASSIST-Quick Search provides the ability to search for documents using
words found in their titles.
Partial values are accepted without use of
special wildcard characters.
Examples:
Use ASBESTOS to find:
PACKING MATERIAL, BRAIDED, NON-ASBESTOS
PAPER, ASBESTOS, CORRUGATED
CLOTH, ASBESTOS (S/S BY SS-C-1783)
ASBESTOS, CRUDE (BLUE CROCIDOLITE)
Federal Supply Class (FSC) codes are used
to group products into logical families for supply management purposes.
The four-digit fields are
used in the standardization program to group standardization documents
associated with products into logical families for standardization
management purposes.
Similarly, Standardization Areas refer to
categories for engineering technologies, disciplines, and practices that
do not fall under a FSC.
The ASSIST maintains a current catalog of all FSCs and Areas to which documents are associated.
Note that documents
may also be classified within a Federal Supply Group, a two-digit code
followed by 'GP', to categorize a small number of documents that can
only be categorized in general, group-level terms.
ASSIST-Quick Search provides the ability to search and locate documents
associated with a single FSC, FSG, or Standardization Area. Use the
drop-down list provided to select from one of nearly 100 valid codes to
search against.
Examples:
FSC:
1005 Guns through 30 mm
1010 Guns over 30 mm Up to 75 mm
1015 Guns 75 mm through 125 mm
1020 Guns over 125 mm through 150 mm
1025 Guns over 150 mm through 200 mm
1030 Guns over 200 mm through 300 mm
FSG:
30 - Mechanical power transmission
equipment
31 - Bearings
Area:
CMAN - CONFIGURATION MANAGEMENT
ISDN
- INTERNATIONAL STANDARDIZATION DOCUMENTS
TCSS - TELECOMMUNICATIONS SYSTEMS STANDARDS
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