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How Standards are Developed/Reviewed

Identifying a need - New specifications begin when a need is perceived by producers, purchasers, or anyone in the aerospace or defense industry.

Committee support - A proposal to create a new aerospace document requires concurrence from the specific committee of jurisdiction. All proposals should be made to the specific committee of jurisdiction in writing. If the committee accepts the proposal, it will assign a sponsor to draft the document.

Voting and comments - The document sponsor will submit a draft electronically to SAE for balloting. Committee members will vote and make comments to the draft. Sponsors will attempt to resolve all comments. The document will then be balloted to Aerospace Council for final approval. Once approved by the Aerospace Council, SAE will publish the document.

Five-year Review - All standards documents are reviewed on a five-year basis. If a need for technical change is identified during this Five-year Review Process, or if anyone reports a problem or concern with a standard (regardless of the amount of time since the last revision), the Chairperson of the applicable committee can initiate a project to revise an existing SAE standard.

No downgrading - A key point is that SAE rules prohibit downgrading a specification during the revision process. This means that technical requirements (i.e., tensile strength, ductility, etc.) may not be lessened, thereby protecting users who may have already designed product relying on the original material. In such a case, a new specification would be created with other (lower) properties and the original specification inactivated or cancelled, as applicable.

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