OUR CHARTER

The NASA Workmanship Technical Committee (NWTC) serves as the agency's technical authority to ensure that adequate workmanship standards and training for electronic hardware are available to NASA, its suppliers, and the aerospace community. The NWTC is responsible for documenting workmanship requirements and design criteria for the manufacture of space flight, aeronautics, and mission critical ground support electronic hardware. The committee evaluates the adequacy of Voluntary Consensus Standards (VCS's) per A-119 and provides advocacy when appropriate. When no industry standard adequately addresses the workmanship needs for NASA, the NWTC partners with VCS organizations to generate an industry standard, or they generate and maintain NASA Standards and Training material. As a technical resource to the agency, the NWTC may be called upon to generate manufacturing best practice guidance to assist NASA programs manage risk and ensure safety and mission success.