TS 13461

TS 13461 is a standard concerned with the requirements that need to be defined in a contractor-prepared Configuration Management Plan (CMP). In general technical terms, configuration management is the discipline that keeps a product, system, or project definition consistent throughout its life cycle, with controlled change and traceable documentation.

What the Configuration Management Plan is meant to do

The focus of this standard is not a specific product, but the content that a CMP is expected to identify. In practice, that means the plan brings together the key management elements for configuration identification, change control, status accounting, and verification/consistency activities. A CMP is the main document that explains which version of a system exists, what changed, when it changed, and under which approved technical basis.

Technical context and document boundary

Based on the supplied scope, this standard covers the requirements to be stated in the contractor’s CMP. Its reference to ACMP-1:2007 points to the common configuration-management planning framework, but this listing does not reproduce the full clauses or detailed procedures of the complete document. The related ACMP references indicate that the plan is expected to align with the wider configuration-management structure used across the series.

• Configuration identification: defining what items make up the product or system
• Change control: evaluating and approving modifications in a controlled way
• Status accounting: keeping configuration information recorded and traceable
• Verification and consistency: comparing the defined configuration with the actual state