O-LEVEL MATERIAL CONTROL CENTERS While performing maintenance on a squadron aircraft, you find that you must remove a malfunctioning part. The maintenance chief agrees; so, you wrap the unserviceable item in the approved wrapping material or put it in the proper container. You complete all the required information, ensuring accuracy, in NALCOMIS or fill out the VIDS/MAF, making sure that the entries are readable on all five copies. Then, you take the VIDS/MAF to the squadron material control center. The material control center is your squadron’s contact point for parts and material. The material control center passes the requirements to the ASD/SSC of the supply department. The material control center does this in a timely manner to prevent work stoppage. When the parts arrive, your squadron AK ensures that the replacement parts are forwarded to your work center after receipt from supply. AKs in the material control center perform other duties in addition to filling material requirements. The material control center prepares documents for material required for operational support: for example, indirect material requirements, such as aviation fuel and lube oil, that the squadron uses in the aircraft. The material control center also provides flight clothing and special equipment (such as safety shoes and foul weather jackets). Also, squadron AKs make up requests for material carried in the service market (SERVMART) outlets. Often, they are the “gopher” on SERVMART runs. Squadron AKs ensure that personnel prepare surveys for lost, damaged, or stolen material. They keep maintenance control advised of the overall supply situation and its effect upon the maintenance actions. The material control center also performs accounting and charting of operational target (OPTAR) funding and budgeting. Material control also validates NMCS and PMCS requisitions to make sure that supply is carrying all the outstanding requisitions on their list. Finally, the AK is the individual your supervisor will contact when he or she submits an IMRL change request. The material control center also prepares and accounts for flight packets. While assigned to a squadron, you may be deployed away from your home base. If aircraft parts fail or if you need to buy gas or oil while deployed, the flight packet prepared by your squadron AK will contain the paperwork to pay for the services you receive, whether the activity that provides the parts or services is a Navy activity or some other activity. A flight packet has the following items. DOD Single Line Item Requisition System, DD Form 1348 (6 part). This DD Form 1348 allows a military activity rendering a service to bill your squadron. The pilot of the aircraft enters what was purchased, the number purchased, and the date. He or she signs the requisition as proof of receipt. Purchase Order Invoice Voucher, Standard Form 44. Commercial as well as government activities accept these vouchers in payment for goods and services. There are monetary limits placed on the Standard Form 44s, and if the pilot wishes to exceed this limit, he or she must get permission from his or her commanding officer. The flight packet contains instructions on how to fill out these forms. Because Standard Form 44s can have monetary value, the pilot accounts for each voucher in his or her possession. DD 1896 or DD 1897 (identiplate). This identiplate is used to procure jet fuel or aviation gasoline from commercial airports holding Defense Logistics Agency, (DLA) into-plane refueling contracts and most DOD activities. I-LEVEL MATERIAL CONTROL CENTER The material control center at the I-level operates like the material control center in a squadron. The difference is in the volume of the parts requisitioned. The volume can be two or three times greater at the I-level than at the O-level. The volume is greater because the I-level maintenance activities repair more than 90 percent of the unserviceable parts turned in by the squadrons. The aeronautical material screening unit (AMSU) processes components turned in to the ASD/SSC (aviation support division/supply support center) to determine the capability of the intermediate maintenance activity (IMA) to check/test or repair the item. The AMSU makes this determination by using the ICRL. The supply managers at the IMA consult maintenance personnel about ICRL management. They also support local efforts to improve repair capability. Q22. What work center is the point-of-contact for parts and material at the organizational maintenance level? 3-22