scope:

a. Materiel Inclusions. This instruction applies to material in any condition held in Navy inventory records or in contracted custody, and classified as ordnance, inert ordnance cognizance materiel and ordnance containers/packaging items designated as reusable. This instruction does not apply to nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, or biological and chemical weapons.

b. Command and Activities. This instruction applies to all naval activities that store conventional ordnance, including sonobouys and Marine Corps Class (V) aviation ordnance. All government and contractor personnel involved with naval ordnance production, life cycle and operational logistics support, and information systems management are included in this instruction. All Claimants/Commands, Type Commanders, and Regional Commanders with subordinate commands and activities that handle or store naval ordnance are also included within the scope of this instruction for purposes of inventory accuracy oversight, corrective action, and training. Shore activities with large customer bases, high throughput, and/or large amount of stock under management are designated as primary stock points with special inventory requirements as stated within this instruction.

c. Enclosure (1) provides a list of definitions used within this instruction.

a. To issue policy regarding the accountability for conventional ordnance inventory.

b. To assign responsibilities for achieving and sustaining ordnance inventory accuracy.

c. To establish ordnance inventory accuracy performance objectives.

d. To establish reporting requirements for ordnance inventory accountability statistics.

e. To implement provisions of Chapter 7, reference (a).