scope:

This instruction applies to the airlift by all shippers of all Navy funded/sponsored material and all Coast Guard Continental United States (CONUS) export air cargo by Air Mobility Command (AMC) channel service and commercial air freight services, including those shipments routed by the Surface Deployment and Distribution Command. Reference (a) addresses the movement of material by Special Assignment Airlift Mission. Airlift of personal property is covered in reference (b). Use of Navy organic airlift is addressed by reference (c). Reference (d) provides challenge and tracing procedures, data formats to use in the clearance process, sets time standards for Transportation Control and Movement Document (TCMD) submissions and challenge actions, establishes the relationship between the ACA and AMC and directs the order of precedence to use when AMC airlift does not meet Navy requirements.

Purpose.

To update guidance for the clearance, documentation, challenge and tracing of Navy funded/sponsored material air shipments.