Items Excluded From the Defense Logistics Agency Defense Inactive Item Program

摘要

This report, the third in a series of reports on obsolete national stock number (NSN) items, discusses NSNs excluded from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) Defense Inactive Item Program. Inspector General, DoD, Report No. D-2000-185, 'Allegations to the Defense Hotline Concerning Management of Obsolete Reparable Items,' September 7, 2000, discusses obsolete NSNs in Navy weapon system files. Inspector General, DoD, Report No. D-2001-035, 'Management of Potentially Inactive Items at the Defense Logistics Agency,' January 24, 2001, discusses obsolete NSNs in DLA supply files. The DLA Defense Inactive Item Program provides for the systematic elimination of inactive, or obsolete, NSNs from the DLA supply system. An NSN is considered obsolete if the NSN is inactive and there are no current or future requirements anticipated by any registered user or the integrated materiel manager of the NSN. Obsolete NSNs that are not deleted from the DoD supply system needlessly consume cataloging and supply system files, machine time, personnel resources, and warehouse space. Excluded from the Defense Inactive Item Program are NSNs with no registered users other than DLA and inhibited NSNs. DLA policy requires review of those NSNs. DLA supply records, excluding the clothing and textile, medical, and subsistence commodities, included 126,390 NSNs that were excluded from the DLA Defense Inactive Item Program.