Useful links and resources for Preparing Activities, Technical Standards Managers (TSMs), Subject Matter Experts (SMEs), and Draft Technical Standards reviewers.
Technical Standard Templates
Templates for document development and internal communication.
- DOE Technical Standards Phases
- Style Guide - For the Preparation of DOE Technical Standards (Standards, Handbooks, and Technical Standards Lists), May 13, 2015.
- Processing CUI Standards
508 Compliance
Links to helpful information to comply with 508 compliance
Technical Standards Procedures
Procedures used to write, revise, or maintain a DOE technical standard. They are also used to convert a DOE technical standard to a non-government standard or to form a topical committee.
Annual OMB Submissions
Templates and archives for DOE entities' annual submissions for the reports to OMB on the use and development of voluntary consensus standards.
Other Useful Information
- Subject Area Listing - implementing a new feature with focus on predefined Subject Areas (Groupings). Using the feature, Preparing Activities (PAs) and Technical Standards Managers (TSMs) can assign Subject Areas to groups of users and ensure prompt notification to identified SMEs.
- Safety Software Quality Assurance - The Department of Energy Maintains a list of "toolbox" codes that have been evaluated against DOE Safety Software Quality Assurance (SSQA) requirements of DOE O 414.1D, Quality Assurance, and its safety software guidance, DOE G 414.1-4, and accepted as toolbox codes.
- DOE O 251.1E, Departmental Directives System (Current Version) - Establishes directives as the primary means to set, communicate, and institutionalize policies, requirements, responsibilities, and procedures for Departmental elements and contractors.
DOE O 252.1A, Technical Standards Program (Current Version)
DOE Order that establishes the Technical Standards Program.