Hello Kelly,
I'll tackle this from the ISO 9001/9000 perspective.... There was a requirement in earlier revisions of ISO 9001 to determine "exclusions" and to provide justifications, usually documented within the organization's quality manual. This changed in the 2015 revision of ISO 9001 to now require that "justifications" be provided as documented information within the company's scope statement. (See Clause A.5, "
Applicability" in ISO 9001:2015 for further
explanation). The short answer from the ISO 9001:2015 perspective is that neither deviations or waivers are mentioned in regard to a company's scope. There is mention of deviation in clause 0.3.3 citing a positive deviation arising from risk as an
opportunity, but this usage of that term appears far from your thoughts on the subject.
I will defer discussion of AS 9100D's use of these terms to their experts, but also recognize that the Aerospace standard continues to use ISO 9001 (now ISO 9001:2015) as its foundation.