Associated to these were document templates, or Data Item Descriptions, described below, bringing documentation and process order that could scale to projects of the size humans were then conducting (aircraft, battleships, canals, dams, factories, satellites, submarines, etcetera).
However, it was canceled on May 27, 1998, and replaced by the essentially identical demilitarized version EIA J-STD-016[1][2] as a process example guide for IEEE 12207.
These documents could take many forms, from source code, to installation scripts, to various electronic and paper reports, and the government contracting party is encouraged to specify acceptable formats.
Any software development project (effort) was expected to make selections from the 22 possible documents and list the selections in the Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL) form within the Uniform Contract Format.
A CDRL lists the data items which are to be produced and delivered by a contractor as part of that contract.