Space: The Final Frontier for Standards
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The International Space Station
Wrapped snugly in a custom container, seven carefully chosen materials left Earth on Aug. 24, 2025, traveling at 17,500 mph.
How Aerospace, Federal Contractors Can See Real CMMI Readiness
Capability maturity model integration (CMMI) is a process improvement framework required by many U.S. government contracts. If you’ve been through a CMMI appraisal in aerospace or federal contracting, you know there’s a typical pattern. Things look great on paper.
Conformity Assessment Is Not Enough
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Auditing is more than checking boxes.
Let’s be honest. Conformity assessment has become dangerously comfortable. It’s familiar, structured, and predictable.
The Importance of Integrating EHS and Quality Management Systems
Integrating environmental, health, and safety (EHS) with quality management is no longer optional for manufacturers; it’s essential for achieving operational excellence, ensuring ISO compliance, and driving sustainable growth.
What Is Data Masking?
Data are the backbone of our digital world. From healthcare to finance, and from government agencies to private businesses, organizations everywhere rely on vast amounts of data to function effectively.
AI in the Doctor’s Office
When you go to a medical appointment, does the doctor look at you while you talk? Or are they busy typing everything you say into a computer? If it’s the latter, you may find that will change soon, thanks to artificial intelligence.
AI Risks in Conformity Assessment Implementation
In recent months, through several of my professional activities, a recurring and increasingly concerning pattern has emerged: The use of AI to generate client responses to accreditation assessment findings (nonconformities) as well as participant essays, exercises, a
80% of Healthcare Firms Are Exploring AI for Quality Management
During a June 2025 webinar on pragmatic AI applications in healthcare quality management and regulatory affairs, live polling of quality and regulatory professionals revealed that approximately 80% of respondents were actively implementing AI solutions or seriously c
What FDA Investigators Will Look for Under QMSR
The medical device industry is counting down to an important deadline: On Feb. 2, 2026, the U.S.
Science-Backed Standards Keep You Safer in the Skies
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NIST researcher Jack Glover holds a test object for millimeter-wave imaging systems—scanners that are used to check passengers in many airport security lines.
If you’ve flown in the U.S. in recent years, you’re probably familiar with the airport security experience of entering a booth, raising your hands above your head, and having a machine check your body. That machine is called a millimeter wave scanner.