The IAQG has reported that it has no plans to break alignment wth ISO 9001 for its upcoming AS9100 revision, to be rebranded as “IA9100.” It also announced that the publication of the IA9100 standard will likely be delayed as a result of ISO 9001:2026’s delayed release.

Previously, sources reported to Oxebridge that there was frustration over ISO’s delays in updating the shared ISO 9001 standard, which AS9100 uses as its base document. As a result, the call for AS9100 to “decouple” from ISO 9001 entirely was again gaining steam. A recent shakeup at IAQG appears to have quashed that movement.

Under new IAQG President Eric Jeffries of Bell Textron, all Boeing staff were ejected from all IAQG committees, including key AS9100 authors Alan Daniels and Tim Lee. Jeffries then largely disbanded the AS9100 authoring committee, creating a committee of less than ten hand-picked delegates to work on the project, under his direction. This removes even more levels of consensus, which had already been dwindling under prior IAQG managerial excess.

Jeffries’ moves have been poorly received outside the insulated IAQG, which avoids direct interaction with stakeholders and ignores complaints as a matter of common practice.

It is believed that European entities, such as Safran and Airbus, are taking more control now, and these entities are more enamored with ISO than those in the US.

When asked by aerospace Quality Manager Lee Edwards of Kepston Ltd, the IAQG recently reported the following (emphasis added):

The move from sectors references (i.e. AS, EN, and JISQ) to a single one (i.e. IA – International Aerospace) aims to facilitate the publication of all IAQG standards from now on. This change does not mean that this is a move away from ISO 9001. The IA9100 standard remains ISO 9001 based. With the expected delay of the upcoming ISO 9001 revision, the IA9100 revision will most probably be delayed too. However, if the IAQG decides to significantly change the IA9100 publication schedule, all relevant stakeholders will be informed immediately.

The ISO 9001 stadnard is not expected to be released until lage 2026 at the earliest, with that date possibly slipping into 2027. It is expected the IA9100 standard would follow about six months after that.

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