scope:

Applicability. This regulation applies to the active Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, unless otherwise stated. It also applies to personnel involved in research, development, acquisition, and support of materiel and systems. It applies to all Department of the Army acquisition programs, including national security systems; special access programs (unless specifically excepted per program charter); medical systems; computer resources integral to those items or systems; system and nonsystem training aids, devices, simulations, and simulators; embedded training; embedded testing; instrumentation, targets, and threat simulators ; and clothing and individual equipment. It applies to command, control, communications, and computers/information technology systems where the Army is the executive agent for another organization or Service or where a command, control, communications, and computers/information technology system is developed cooperatively with other governments unless such organization scan assure their compliance. The portions of this regulation pertaining to the Army's acquisition, logistics, and technology work force management apply to active Army, the Army National Guard of the United States, the Army Reserve, and Department of the Army civilian personnel serving in designated acquisition positions. The following items are excluded from the purview of this regulation: (1) materiel requirements for the U.S. Army Civil Works Program except for information technology; (2) functional medical clothing and equipment listed in Common Table of Allowances 8-100; (3) those distinctive articles of clothing and insignia worn and used by the U.S. Corps of Cadets at the U.S. Military Academy; (4) centrally procured heraldic items in the initial and supplemental clothing allowances ( Common Table of Allowances 50-900); (5) other items as determined by Head quarters, Department of the Army and so directed after proper Army Secretariat and Army staff coordination; (6) medical materiel and information systems that support fixed facility tables of distribution and allowances health care missions within the Defense Health Program, which will be managed under AR 40-60, AR 40-61, and AR 25-1.

Purpose

This regulation and DA Pam 70-3 implement the Army's acquisition policy for programs in acquisition categories (ACATs) I through III. (See para 3-2, below.) This regulation assigns responsibilities to Army organizations in accordance with DODD 5000.01 and DODI 5000.02. The Army will apply the direction contained in DODD 5000.01 and DODI 5000.02 to all acquisition programs while streamlining and tailoring the procedures within statutory and program requirements. This regulation also specifies Army's acquisition workforce management responsibilities and defines clothing and individual equipment (CIE) acquisition responsibilities.