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Defence Quality Assurance Authority

Role and responsibility

The Defence Quality Assurance Authority (DQAA) is the Director General Safety and Engineering (DGS&E), who operates under a letter of delegation from the Chief of Defence Materiel (CDM).

The DQAA is the professional head of the Quality Assurance (QA) function within the MOD, and is the MOD authority on matters of policy and professional standards pertaining to quality and its assurance for all MOD procurement across a contractual boundary.

The DQAA is also the National Quality Assurance Authority (NQAA); the authority, in a country, responsible for the operational implementation of Government Quality Assurance (GQA).

The Assistant Director of Defence Quality Assurance Policy (S&E DQAPol AD) leads a small team of quality professionals who act as the DQAA's executive arm.

Consultation and communication

The DQAA has the responsibility of consulting with stakeholders, both internally and externally to the MOD in order to develop and improve policy, processes and standards. The two main consultation channels that allow the DQAA to discharge this responsibility are:

Externally - the Defence Industries Quality Forum (DIQF)
Internally - the Quality Assurance Consultative Group (QACG)

The DQAA communicates with the acquisition community through a variety of channels, the main ones are:

This Managing Quality website hosted on the Acquisition Operating Framework (AOF)
MOD Quality Alert Notices (MQAN)
MOD Quality Assurance Authority Notices (MQN)
QUALITY in your Pocket Guide
Quality Matters Newsletter.

S&E DQAPol AD operates a dedicated email and telephone helpline on behalf of the DQAA. See the Getting Help topic for full details.

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