NATO QUALITY ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS
AQAP 2110
Edition D Version 1 JUNE 2016
1 day training
04.04.2025
Trainer:
Petteri Salakari, Management Systems Consult & Lead Auditor QEHS
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AGENDA & CONTENT OF TRAINING
09:00 Opening meeting, presentations, targets for training
09:30 AQAP –baseline:
– Use of Allied Quality Assurance Publications (AQAP), Players/roles
– Government Quality Assurance activities (GQA)
– Normative & Informative references of AQAP2110
– Hierarchy and Structure, Approved AQAP –Publications
– Transition to AQAP 2110 Edition D Version 1 June 2016
– Additional AQAP2110 &2131 Requirements to ISO 9001:2015 Requirements
– Saab GATE –MODEL with AQAP requirements (IS NEEDED FOR PREPARATION OF
TRAINING!)
10:30 Coffee break
10:45 AQAP 2110 Edition D version 1 June 2016
– AQAP 2110 structure
– Chapter 1, General, Chapter 2, Compliance
– Chapter 3, Composition of requirements in AQAP 2110, Normative and Informative
Requirements
– Definitions
– Chapter 4, General QMS Requirements & Chapter 5, NATO Specific QMS Requirements
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AGENDA & CONTENT OF TRAINING
– AQAP 2110 general requirements
– 4.1 Applicability of ISO 9001:2015 Requirements, 4.2 Quality Management System and its Processes
– 4.3 Access to Supplier and External Providers and Support For GQA Activities
– 5.1 Leadership, 5.1.1 Organizational roles, responsibilities and authorities
– 5.2 Planning, 5.2.1 Risk Management
– 5.3 Support and 5.3.1 Infrastructure, 5.3.2 Monitoring and measuring resources: ISO 10012: 2003 requirements
(Measurement management systems. Requirements for measurement processes and equipment).
11:30 Lunch
12:30 AQAP 2110 Edition D version 1 June 2016
– AQAP 2110 general requirements
– 5.3.3 Competence, 5.3.4 Awareness, 5.3.5 Documented information
– 5.4 Operation, 5.4.1 Operational planning and control, 5.4.1.1 Quality Plan, Content of Deliverable Quality Plan
– 5.4.1.2 Configuration Management, 5.4.1.2.1 Configuration Management (CM) requirements, 5.4.1.2.2
Configuration Management Plan (CMP), Configuration management in lifecycle perspective
– 5.4.2 Customer communication
– 5.4.3 Determining the requirements related to products
– 5.4.4 Design and development controls
– 5.4.5 Dependability and related reference standards, NATO PROGRAMME MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK (NATO Life
Cycle Model), NATO System Life Cycle Processes
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AGENDA & CONTENT OF TRAINING
14.00 Coffee break
14.15 AQAP 2110 Edition D version 1 June 2016
– AQAP 2110 general requirements
– 5.4.6 Control of externally provided processes, products and services, 5.4.6.1 General, 5.4.6.2
Type and extent of control
– 5.4.6.3 Communication
– 5.4.7 Control of Production and Service Provision
– 5.4.8 Identification and traceability
– 5.4.9 Property belonging to customers or External Providers, 5.4.10 Preservation
– 5.4.11 Release of products (CoC)
– 5.4.12 Control of nonconforming products
– 5.5 Performance Evaluation, 5.5.1 Customer satisfaction, 5.5.2 Internal audit, 5.5.3 Management
review
– 5.6 Improvement
– 5.6.1 Nonconformity and corrective action
15.00 Questions and summary
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USE OF ALLIED QUALITY ASSURANCE PUBLICATIONS (AQAP)
▪ Quality assurance requirements for companies delivering defence material
– Quality Management Systems based on AQAP publications requirements, 3rd
party certification is not always required
▪ To have confidence in advance that the purchase of defence material meets
the requirements and the product performance is as required and agreed
▪ NATO-compatible approaches to defense material procurement
▪ GQA (Government Quality Assurance) activities are carried out by GQAR
(Government Quality Assurance Representative, nominated for the project)
▪ Life cycle model for the entire life cycle of defense material
▪ Recognize players and their roles and requirement for operations
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PLAYERS/ROLES
▪ Acquirer (Customer)
– Governmental and/or NATO Organisations, that enter into a contractual
relationship with a Supplier, defining the product and quality requirements.
▪ Supplier
– Organisation that acts in a contract as the provider of products to the Acquirer.
▪ GQAR (Government Quality Assurance Representatitive)
– The Personnel with responsibility for Government Quality Assurance (GQA),
acting on behalf of the Acquirer (delegated), conduct particular activities (based
on risks identified before by the acquirer)
– Not always nominated
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