scope:

AIM

The aim of this NATO standardization recommendation (STANREC) is to list recommended practices regarding:

the NATO Preferred Methods for Unique Identification (UID) of items.

UID is a common standard and a set of business rules for identifying serially managed equipment and items of supply. UID standardizes the method for assigning serialized reference numbers, called Unique Item Identifiers (UII) for these discrete items. UII assignment ensures global uniqueness within ISO/IEC 15459 applications ensures quality data capture through the use of a machine-readable, two-dimensional ECC200 data matrix symbol with the encoded UII information, and establishes a common data key (i.e., the UII) for each information system to collect, manage, and share information related to that serialized item.

As a standards-based identification system, UID is designed to support operational and SLCM decisions by enabling NATO, NATO nations, PfP nations, and industry to improve data sharing, data retrieval and data quality related to serialized items.

AUIDP-1 is a general approach for implementing UID concepts, specifically: What items are to be uniquely identified; how to mark items; how to manage the data related to marked items; and how to exploit the assured data delivered by the capability of UID.