In 2017, we wrote the original DCMA Survival Guide to provide the GovCon community support in navigating the challenging DCMA Audit landscape. Government contractors need to stay compliant and up to date with the detailed requirements and obligations of their contracts. Specifically, all employees need to have a thorough understanding of their contract obligations as well [...]
The IUID Registry is the Department of Defense’s repository for all IUID data and the master data source for Government Furnished Property (GFP) in accordance with DoDI 8320.04. It’s purpose is to provide the government a system to manage and track end items, legacy items, updates and rebuilds, and other property. Note that Government [...]
This week the GAO recommended that the Defense Dept. develop a strategy to address the material weaknesses surrounding government furnished property (GFP). Auditors have been reporting on the GFP-related material weakness for decades. This recent GAO report acknowledged that greater accountability is needed for government property in the possession of contractors and that a comprehensive [...]
Live Webinar: RFID for Manufacturers in 2023 Feb 2nd at 2pm EST Register here With a tight labor market, Manufacturers are struggling to manage the location of their critical assets, raw materials and components. Inventory visibility in the warehouse and also on the production floor is critical to keeping the operations moving efficiently. In today’s [...]
Advanced Ship Notices (ASNs) are digital documents that are sent ahead of a shipment, via an EDI (or Electronic Data Interchange), to communicate detailed item data regarding the goods in a particular shipment. Advanced Shipping Notice Software is commonly used to automatically generate these important shipping documents. The use of ASNs are common in many [...]
The DoD released their annual department-wide Audit results for FY2022 last week and for the fifth consecutive year the Defense Department was unable to achieve a clean audit opinion. Officially, the Inspector General issued a disclaimer of opinion on the Department’s FY 2022 consolidated financial statements. Which means the DoD did not pass the audit [...]
The key differences between these two Military Standards is that MIL-STD-130 contain the regulations for Item identification and MIL-STD-129 contain the regulations for Shipping identification. What is MIL-STD-130 Military Standard 130 (or MIL-STD-130) is the asset identification standard for the US Department of Defense that gives directions on how to mark [...]
As part of the A2B Tracking’s Webinar Series, we have frequently discussed the fundamental elements that are required in order to create a compliant MIL-STD-130 IUID label. For the purpose of this post, I would like to talk about MIL-STD-129R labels, also known as Military Shipping labels. MIL-STD-129 labels are similar to IUID labels but [...]
A2B Tracking has developed a companion application for UC! Web users, that provides an offline Barcode scanning solution to perform automated inventories inside of Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (also known as SCIF environments). Our barcode solution for SCIF environments takes advantage of a lightweight barcode scanner that has no wifi, cellular or bluetooth capabilities and [...]
Modern RFID Tracking Webinar - Start small and grow with success RFID adoption rates are on the rise in 2022. Modern businesses are looking to RFID solutions for improvements in inventory accuracy and warehouse efficiencies to support their operations during labor shortages. RFID technology offers a wide range of benefits for an organization - [...]
