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in the 1950s as a technical management discipline for hardware material items--and it is now a standard practice in virtually every industry. The CM process became its own technical discipline in the late 1960s when the DoD developed a series of military standards called the "480 series" (i.e., MIL-STD-480, MIL-STD-481 and MIL-STD-483) that were subsequently issued in the 1970s. In 1991, the "480 series" was consolidated into a single standard known as the MIL-STD-973 that was then replaced

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