STAFF DIVISIONS.—The staff divisions of the I-level maintenance department provide services and support to the production elements. They serve in much the same way as the QA division and maintenance administration division of an O-level activity. The administration division functions as the coordinator for all records and reports, directives, correspondence, and personnel matters for the department. Personnel in the I-level administration division perform the following duties: Conduct liaison with the administrative department regarding department personnel Safeguard and distribute personal mail to department personnel, when appropriate Control the classified matter required by the department Distribute approved locally issued reports and studies Coordinate transportation and communication requirements for their department Establish and coordinate the department training requirements. and obtain any school quotas needed to support these requirements Assign spaces to the various divisions, and establish the responsibility for security and cleanliness of such spaces Assume the responsibility for the cleanliness and security of vacant or unassigned maintenance spaces Arrange department participation in joint inspections of facilities assigned to tenant activities, especially incident to the arrival or departure of a tenant activity The QA division of I-level maintenance activities has the same primary functions as those of organizational activities—to prevent the occurrence of defects. Personnel in this division use statistical analysis to compare the results obtained with the results desired. Through research, they find methods of improving effectiveness of the overall maintenance effort. The objectives of the QA division in I-level maintenance are identical to the objectives of QA in O-level maintenance activities. MAINTENANCE MATERIAL CONTROL.— In an intermediate activity, maintenance material control is organized much like the maintenance material control of the organizational activity. It has two work centers-production control and material control. Production control is the central point of the entire maintenance effort. IMAs exist to support operating activities. Personnel working in the production control work center plan and schedule the workload. The workload consists of repairing, testing, and processing aircraft parts, components, and related equipment. Intermediate activities tend to be large. Because of this tendency, the location ofvarious work centers, and the number of components handled daily, it is not practical to control each component inducted from a central production control area. Production control delegates some of its functions to certain selected production divisions. These divisions are responsible to production control for the production efforts of their assigned work centers, scheduling components into work centers, and assigning priorities as directed by production control. The maintenance data base administrator/analyst (MDBA/A) provides qualitative and quantitative analytical information to the AM0 via the MMCO for continuous review of management practices within the department or activity The MDBA/A is established at the I-level to monitor, control, and apply the MDS. The MDBA/A also serves as a contact point between work centers and the DSF, and is responsible for the management of all aspects of the MDS including NALCOMIS reports and inquiries at the l-level. Specific responsibilities of the MDBA/A are parallel to that of the SA/A at the O-level. If an activity is operating with VIDS, the analyst will be assigned to QA/A. Production control cooperates with staffmembers. It uses staff findings and recommendations to improve the overall maintenance effort. Together with the administration division, the QA division and the MDBA/A, maintenance material control provides the intermediate aircraft maintenance officer with a complete picture of the maintenance situation for any given time, and also makes recommendations for improvement. The material control center coordinates and controls the supply functions of the department. It acts as a liaison between the department and the local supply, activity. It processes all supply and material transactions for the other divisions of the department. Other functions of the material control center are as follows: Requisitions material l-10