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traceable from engineering approval through field deployment.\nMaintain a clear view of which customers, aircraft, payloads, ground systems, spares, and support equipment are affected by each change.\nDefine and maintain change effectivity logic, including serial number applicability, build applicability, customer applicability, configuration applicability, and retrofit applicability.\nCoordinate with Product Engineering and Sustainment Engineering to understand technical change intent, required implementation steps, and field impact.\nCoordinate with Fleet Support and Customer Success to ensure field teams understand which updates, inspections, retrofits, or service actions apply to each customer asset.\nCoordinate with Manufacturing, Quality, and Supply Chain to ensure production records, nonconformance records, part revisions, supplier changes, and field configurations remain aligned.\nIdentify configuration gaps, data inconsistencies, undocumented modifications, incomplete retrofit 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