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Before any company can be certified to the AS9100C standard, the aerospace industry must complete these milestones:

• The AS9104-1 standard must be published (expected spring 2010)
• The AS9101D standard (checklist) must be published (expected Spring 2010)
• The AS9100C/AS9101D course for certification body auditors (NQA auditors) must be developed, vetted and made available for use by certification bodies (expected by 30 April 2010)
• Certification body auditors must attend this course, pass it, submit their applications to RABQSA and get approved (we expect that to happen over the summer and fall of 2010)
• The registrars must submit an application to ANAB and then be audited before we can be accredited to perform audits to AS9100C (we expect that to happen early summer of 2010)

Once all of the above tasks are completed, registrars will be able to conduct audits to the quality management system requirements of AS9100 revision C.

As to when your company must transition to this new standard, all AS9100 audits after July 1^st, 2011 must be to AS9100C and that by July 1^st, 2012, AS9100B will cease to exist and all registrations for AS9100 must be to revision C of the standard.