EIA holds accreditation rights through ANSI, the American National Standards Institute. Any standards committee choosing to develop an American National Standard may process the work through the EIA accreditation. The EIA Standards and Technology department ensures that any standards-setting activities currently underway or planned meet due process and procedural guidelines as laid out in the EIA Manual of Organization and Procedure (EIA EP-20A) and the EIA Legal Guides. Most Sector Association standards are fed through this department for final publishing and distribution via our publications distributor, Global Engineering Documents.

The EIA Standards and Technology Department oversees the EIA's presence in the global standards-setting arena by managing a number of Technical Committee and Subcommittee Secretariats and US Technical Advisory Groups (TAGs) sponsored by the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and the Joint Technical Committee on Information Technology (JTC1) that is a combined effort of the IEC and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).