AAP-06 is developed and maintained by the Military Committee Terminology Board (MCTB) as part of the NATO Terminology Programme (NTP), which finds its origins in the NATO Military Terminology Standardization Programme by the NATO Standing Group in February 1954 which: a. assigned responsibility for the coordination of NATO military terminology to the Military Agency for Standardization (MAS) (predecessor of the NATO Standardization Office (NSO)); b. outlined the initial steps for processing terminology; c. provided general terms of reference (TOR).
