MIL-DTL-5015 of multi-contact circular connectors that were used by virtually every aircraft builder in the United States. Cannon's Type "AN" (Army-Navy) series set the standard for modern circular connectors procured under MIL-C-5015—now MIL-DTL-5015—military specifications. The military specification MIL-DTL-5015 was superseded by SAE-AS50151 in December 2009 pursuant to the general United States Department of Defense goal to reduce the number of military standards in favor of industry technical standards supported by Standards Developing Organizations (SDO) such as the ISO 9000 series for quality assurance and the SAE for technical specifications. MIL-DTL-5015 circular connectors are used primarily for their ease of engagement and
ISO 31 ISO 31 ISO 31 (Quantities and units, International Organization for Standardization, 1992) is a deprecated international standard for the use of physical quantities and units of measurement, and formulas involving them, in scientific and educational documents. It is superseded by ISO/IEC 80000. The standard comes in 14 parts: A second international standard on quantities and units was IEC 60027 . The ISO 31 and IEC 60027 Standards were revised by the two standardization organizations in collaboration (, ) to integrate both standards into a joint standard "ISO/IEC 80000 - Quantities and Units" in which the quantities and equations used with