RESPONSIBILITIES AND FUNCTIONS cont'd

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technology program for assigned ammunition in

instructions and transportation resources provided by

accordance

with

DoD

Instruction

4200.15

the Secretaries of the Navy and Air Force (C-5b(6),

(Manufacturing Technology Program).

below) and in accordance with the movement and issue

priority system prescribed by DoD Directive 4410.6

(Uniformed Materiel Movement and Issue Priority

(7) Conduct, in collaboration with the

System (UMMIPS)).

The Single Manager is to

Secretaries to the Navy and Air Force, industrial

coordinate with the Services in selection or storage

preparedness production planning for assigned

depots so as to minimize cost of maintenance and to

ammunition in accordance with DoD Directive 4005.1

optimize ability to meet Service requirements. The

and ASPR (C-5a(4), above).

Services do not have veto power over the final decision

(8) Manage, operate, and maintain the

by the Single Manager. Inter-Service transfers will

wholesale inventory of ammunition in CONUS, including

continue to require approval by the affected Service(s).

related and required installations and facilities or parts

However, for items with a high degree of commonality,

of them. Wholesale inventory includes all conventional

the Services should provide pre-arranged standing

ammunition stocks between point of production and

approvals permitting the Single Manager to make inter-

point of receipt at first intermediate retail CONUS

Service transfers. DoDD 4140.1 requires that the SM

activity (e.g., tidewater port, air base, post, camp, or

operate an Inventory Control Point for wholesale

station).

Retail inventory includes conventional

conventional ammunition stocks assigned which

ammunition stocks between point of receipt at first

includes control of assigned stocks as well as

intermediate/retail CONUS activity and point of

maintenance of accurate records of those stocks. The

consumption. The wholesale inventory consists of his

SM is responsible for custodial accountability for

own ammunition and that assigned to him by the

wholesale conventional ammunition stocks assigned to

Secretaries of the Navy and Air Force (C-5b(1), below).

him.

Custodial accountability is defined as the

This responsibility applies to his own installations and

maintenance of data elements in the inventory record to

facilities, or parts of them, and those transferred to him

reflect by ownership code the receipt, issue, balance,

by the Secretaries of the Navy and Air Force (C-5b(8),

and such other quantitative and financial data

below). It includes functions as follows:

determined by the SM as minimum essential for proper

control and management of Service owned stocks

(a) Inventory

management

commingled in storage.

The Single Manager is

accordance with DoD Directive 4140.1 (Inventory

responsible for property management. This includes

Management Policies).

This management of the

responsibility for damage, loss, or destruction of

wholesale inventory management of the retail inventory

assigned property. The Single Manager is relieved of

worldwide which is a responsibility of the Secretaries of

his custodial accountability and property management

the Navy and Air Force and is retained by them in

responsibilities upon the Services receipt by an

accordance with C-5b(15)(d), below.

accountable officer or custodian at the first retail point.

Thereupon, the stocks are considered retail stocks and

the Service assumes custodial responsibility and

(b) Receipt and storage of ammunition

property management.

in accordance with DoD Instruction 4140.7 (Control,

Supply, and Positioning of Materiel) and provision,

management, and operation of related storage and

(d) Depot maintenance/renovation of

warehousing facilities and services in accordance with

his own assets and of assets owned by the Secretaries

DoD Directive 4145.19 (Storage and Warehousing

of the Navy and Air rorc4: in accordance with the

Facilities and Services).

general objectives and policies prescribed by DoD

Directive 4151.16 (DoD Equipment Maintenance

Program) and DoD Directive 4151.1 (Use of Contractor

and Government Resources for Maintenance of

assets owned by the Secretaries of the Navy and Air

Materiel). Such maintenance/renovation shall be

Force to their retail inventories (C-5b(15)(d), below).

Such issues and related movements shall be based on

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