scope:

This instruction applies to the Naval Air Systems Command Headquarters (NAVAIRHQ), and its Business Units (BUs), also the Program Executive Officers (PEOs) that use or possess sources of ionizing radiation including Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) licensed radioactive material, naturally-occurring and accelerator-produced radioactive material, radioactive waste, and machine sources (e.g., x-ray machines, particle accelerators, electron microscopes, laboratory analytical devices, and other equipment capable of producing ionizing radiation). This instruction does not apply to naval nuclear propulsion, nuclear weapons, and medical-dental sources.