This document provides airlines, airframe manufacturers, aircraft equipment suppliers, and others with information that is specific to data, software, and ground tools used in aviation configuration and data management. As a starting point, this document provides guidance on: Which standard to use in specific situations The use of and how integrity checks should be applied Common terminology in airborne software management Since airplanes started using software controlled hardware, there has been a need to standardize processes and terminology. This document is the centroid to which other software standards are related.