The American National Standards Institute (ANSI), in collaboration with America Makes, recently announced the release of two new resources designed to help industry, government agencies and researchers identify and navigate standards associated with Additive Manufacturing (AM).

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) recently published ISO 9001:2026 Quality Management Systems — Requirements.  This update replaces ISO 9001:2015, last revised in 2024.

Quality professionals across NASA can benefit from the agency-wide organizational membership in the American Society for Quality (ASQ). The membership provides employees access to quality resources, professional development opportunities, benchmarking tools, member pricing and connections to the broader quality community.

In today’s complex aerospace and defense programs, the cost of late-stage quality interventions continues to be a major contributor to schedule delays, rework and elevated risk. The white paper “Contracting Quality Early in the Program Lifecycle,” prepared by the Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) in collaboration with industry and government quality leaders, advocates for a critical shift: embedding Quality Assurance (QA) requirements at the very start of a program.

The Government-Industry Data Exchange Program’s “Know Your Part” campaign promotes this valuable tool to NASA engineers and procurement professionals to ensure that we use the best parts on our spacecraft and technology.

Revision A of NASA STD 8739.12, Metrology and Calibration took effect November 21, 2024. The standard provides uniform Metrology and Calibration requirements for processes, procedures, practices and methods that are endorsed as standard for NASA applications. This update marks the first revision since the document’s initial release in 2018.

NASA’s Metrology and Calibration (MetCal) group is pleased to announce that all Quality and MetCal professionals now have no-cost access to a wide variety of online training courses through August 1, 2026. The courses are provided by MetCal’s subscription to the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation’s (A2LA) WorkPlace Training (AWPT) program and are available to any civil servant or contractor with a nasa.gov email address.