The Strategic Standardization Group (SSG) was setup in October 2008 by  a group of  European manufacturers,  A& D associations and military govenmental agency  in order to share efforts of development of common A&D e-Business standards and  associated harmonized European policies for operational use.

Both are understood today as two strategic levers of competitiveness for all the A&D manufactures and their supply chains (New role of the Original Equipment Manufacturer as System Integrator, and product & process Information Integrator).

The ASD SSG does not aim to create new eBusiness standards but to support effective governance at European level of International  and European standards:
 

1. Identifying set of standards to use or to develop in order to cover the full spectrum of needs for eBusiness;
2. Proposing and applying governance tools at strategic and technical level (e.g. radar screen, interoperability framework, assessment process)
3. Developing a network of experts
4. Developing  liaisons with all relevant standardization organizations