DOD NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTING INFORMATION ANALYIS CENTER (NTIAC) NEW DATABASE ANNOUNCEMENT The Department of Defense Nondestructive Testing Information Analysis Center (NTIAC), which is sponsored by the Defense Technical Information Center to serve as the DoD's centralized repository of nondestructive testing and evaluation information, announces the availability of the Nondestructive Evaluation (NDE) Standards and Specifications Database. Originally compiled by the Joint Army, Navy, NASA, Air Force (JANNAF) NDT Subcommittee, this database contains information on over 1400 NDT-related standards, specifications, recommended practices, and requirmements from more than 40 standardizing bodies, including Government, ASTM, and Foreign sources. Each record contains the document's title, source organization, issue date, revision date, NDT method, document number, and keywords. Most records also include an abstract of the document's contents. Searches can be performed by keyword, source organization, NDT method, title, document number, date, text string, or various combinations of these. A floppy disk containing the complete NDT Standards and Specifications Database, along with a users manual, can be purchased for $150.00. This program operates is DOS or Windows, and requires a minimum of a 286 operating system, 640K RAM, and 5 MB of hard drive space. No separate database software is required to run the database. Hard copy search results can also be purchased from NTIAC for a search fee of $20.00 plus $1.00 per record. To order the database, or obtain more information, please contact Tom Amoscato, NTIAC, 415 Crystal Creek Drive, Austin, TX 78746, Tel: (512) 263-2106, Fax: (512) 263-3530, e-mail: ntiac@access.texas.gov, WWW: http://www.dtic.dla.mil/iac/ntiac/ntiachome.html.

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