scope:

This manual is applicable to all DoD components involved in such functions as acquisition, use, recording, reporting, maintenance, storage, transportation, reutilization, and disposal of DoD-owned IPE.

This manual is applicable to all DoD components involved in such functions as acquisition, use, recording, reporting, maintenance, storage, transportation, reutilization, and disposal of DoD-owned IPE. The scope of this manual as it applies to IPE in the possession of contractors must be consistent with provisions of the Armed Services Procurement Regulation. Chapter 12 is applicable only to those DoD activities within a military supply system which will record and report IPE items (in use at military installations and activities or held in supply system stocks) on a line item basis according to the agreements between DSA and the DoD components.