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Purpose: In accordance with the authority in DoD Directive 5134.12, policy in DoD Instruction (DoDI) 4140.01, and guidance in DoD Manual (DoDM) 4140.01, this issuance: • Provides procedures for maintaining and using the Federal Catalog System (FCS).

• Assigns responsibilities associated with maintaining and using FCS and FLIS.

• Provides procedures on cataloging supply items.

• Authorizes maintenance of the FLIS technical procedures (previously contained in the volumes of the previous version of this manual) by the Defense Logistics Agency on their website at http://www.dla.mil/HQ/InformationOperations/Offers/Services/TrainingandReference.

APPLICABILITY. This issuance applies to: a. OSD, the Military Departments (including the Coast Guard at all times, including when it is a Service in the Department of Homeland Security by agreement with that Department), the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD (referred to collectively in this issuance as the "DoD Components").

b. Use of the FCS by federal agency organizations participating with the DoD Components in the Federal Catalog Program (FCP), for a uniform system of item identification; but only when and to the extent they adopt the terms of this issuance. The federal agency organizations described in this paragraph are referred to collectively in this issuance as "participating agencies."

c. Use of the FCS by North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) member nations and other foreign governments and agencies participating with the DoD Components in the FCP pursuant to NATO Standardization Agreement (STANAG) 3150, for a uniform system of item identification; but only when and to the extent they adopt the terms of this issuance. The NATO member nations and other foreign governments and agencies described in this paragraph are referred to collectively in this issuance as "participating countries."