5.1.7 Lifecycle support Systems Engineering Fundamentals, Chapter 10 Configuration Management Configuration Management Plan United States Dept. of Defense Acquisition document Construction More recently configuration management has been applied to large construction projects which can often be very complex and have a huge number of details and changes that need to be documented. Construction agencies such as the Federal Highway Administration have used configuration management for their infrastructure projects. There are construction-based configuration management tools that aim to document change orders and RFIs in order to ensure a project stays on schedule and on budget. These programs can also store information to aid in the maintenance and modification of the infrastructure when it is completed. One such application, ccsNet, was tested in a case study funded by the Federal Transportation Administration (FTA) in which the efficacy of configuration management was measured through comparing the approximately 80% complete construction of the Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Agency (LACMTA) first and second segments of the Red Line, a $5.3 billion rail construction project. This study yielded results indicating a benefit to using configuration management on projects of this nature. See also Change detection Granular Configuration Automation Comparison of open source configuration management software Dependency List of software engineering topics Interchangeable parts Continuous configuration automation System configuration Systems management References Method engineering Technical communication Version control systems Computer occupations Systems engineering Software engineering