Cataloging in NATO Today
and the Vision for Tomorrow
Logistics Data & IT Solutions
Defense Logistics Information Service
Mr. Steven Arnett
Deputy Chief, International Cataloging Division
Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center
74 Washington Ave N Suite 7
Battle Creek, MI 49017-3084
(269) 961-7299
DSN 661-7299
FAX (269) 961-4760
EMAIL: Steven.Arnett@dla.mil
Overview of Presentation
• History and scope of the NATO Codification System (NCS)
• The current process of cataloging within the NCS
• Vision for the future of the NCS with eOTD
What Is The Purpose Of NATO
Codification?
• To establish a common supply language throughout all logistic
operations
• To enable interoperability
• To optimize resource management by minimizing duplication in
inventories
Codification Answers
Logistics Questions
Characteristics?
How to purchase?
How to dispose?
How to order?
How to store?
What is it?
How long to keep?
Price?
ANSWER = The NSN and reference related data
The questions are based on National requirements of
logisticians!!!
Codification In Logistics
The U.S. Cataloging System Today
ONE ITEM OF SUPPLY
SINGLE MANAGER
SINGLE NSN
DLA
NSN 1
Each military service
uses their own logistics
“language”
DLA
Army
NSN 1
NSN 2
In The Days of WWII
Marine Corps
NSN 3
Navy
NSN 4
Air Force
NSN 5
Potential for:
- Multiple NSNs, based on service and weapon system NATO
NSN 6
NSN 8
NSN 7
- Multiple buying activities
- Multiple corporate contracts
- Loss of Interoperability/Asset Visibility
NSN ?
Codification Chronology
1945
WWII
1949 PL152 SUPPLY CLASSIFICATION
1952 PL436 CODIFICATION SYSTEM
US/UK/CA
CLASSIFICATION
1954 STANAG 3150
NATO
1956 STANAG 3151
1966 DLSC
1974
NCB CODE
1978
CD-ROM
1991 PFP
DESERT
1994 PACS
STORM
BASELOG
1999
e-Commerce 2002
2006
eOTD / ISO
Costs Of A Weapon System
Weapon system
Fuel, spare parts, work...
acquisition costs
operations costs
1/3
2/3
Political decision
=
specific budget
Operating budget
of the armed forces
Life cycle cost
NCS is Language Interoperable
ŚRUBA,MASZYNOWA
BOLT,MACHINE
BOUT, MACHINE
PERNO, TORNEADO
BULLONE PER METALLO
SCHRAUBE MIT KOPF
SVORNÍK, STROJNÍ
Polish
English
Dutch
Spanish
Italian
German
Czech
Scope of the NCS
• 16 million NATO Stock Numbers have been assigned
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7 million by the U.S. and 8 million by the other NATO
countries
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31 million reference numbers have been registered on
these NSNs
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These NSNs contain more than 22 million user registrations
• 1.5 million manufacturers and other organizations are registered
Nations Using the NCS
NATO countries
Sponsored countries
Nonparticipating countries
Traditional NATO Cataloging
Data
Vendor
Data
NCS
Design, Manufacturing
and Enterprise
Management
Applications
Graphics
Documents
Acod-P1
Data
ERP Application
NCB
Structured Data
eOTD Enabled Cataloguing
Use eOTDi-XML as export filter
Allows NCB to define and publish their data requirements in
terms of the data elements they need (FIIG in XML)
eOTD
tagged
Data
Vendor
eOTD export enabled
Design, Manufacturing
and Enterprise
Management
Applications
eOTDr-XML
eOTDi-XML
Segment V
data
Acod-P1
Data
Data
NCS
eOTDr-XML enabled
Cataloguing Application
NCB
Validation
Vision for the Future
What is impossible to do right now, but, if you could do it, would fundamentally
change your business?
1990 Joel Arthur Barker
• Cataloging at source (vendor supplied data)!
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Common metadata through ISO 22745
• an end to data mapping
Requirement specifications
• an end to incomplete data
Data quality through ISO 8000
• an end to inaccurate information
• Lowers the cost of cataloging and increases long term data reliability!
How NATO Will Realize the Vision
• NATO AC/135 is working with ECCMA, a defense company
called Patria, and NCS application software providers on a
project to apply the principles of eOTD and SSC to a
weapons system:
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The weapons system is called the Patria Armoured Modularized
Vehicle (AMV)
The NCS software applications are SICAD Plus, N-CORE, AURA
MC Catalogue, and OLCIMS
The National Codification Bureaus involved are Finland, Poland,
Spain, United Kingdom, and United States (DLIS)
National softwares like ADAGIO (France), CENCAT3 (Australia),
and ISIS (United Kingdom) may also be included in SSC Phase II
ERP
eOTD Data Flow
N-CORE
MC
Catalogue
Native
CAD
eOTD
item
data
OLCIMS
SICAD
Plus
STEP
CENCAT3
eOTD
Catalogs
on Web
National
Systems
ADAGIO
eOTD: Link to Industry
Classifications
eOTD is Classification Neutral
ECCMA Standard Class Name
Used to access many classifications
ISIC
HS
FSC / NSC
eCl@ss
Industry
Classifications
UNSPSC
NAICS
CPV
Benefits for Government
• Opportunities for improvement of the NATO Codification System
through increased industry participation
• Promotes NCS approach as an ISO standard
• Lower cost of cataloging: Reduction of labor hours
• Higher quality data through direct import of manufacturers’ data
Goal: Electronic transfer of descriptive data from our suppliers and
manufacturers to NCBs
Vision of the Future
 The ultimate goal has been met: to provide a means of
describing product data through the life cycle of a product,
independent of any particular computer system
Towards an Enterprise IDE
Integrated Data Environment
 How else does IDE contribute to asset visibility and overall
interoperability?
Vision: the DOD logistics
enterprise is executing
practices, processes,
applications, and decision
support in an integrated
logistics data environment,
thereby achieving logistics
data interoperability within
a Net Centric Community
of Interest (COI).
USMC
Air
Force
Navy
USTC
DLA
Enterprise
Integrated
Data
Environmen
t
Army
Contemporary
Systems
Asset
Visibility
TODAY
 Stovepipe systems
 High cost
 Limited data interoperability
Allies
USCG
Data
Warehous
e
Commercial
Trading
Partners
Logistics data
interoperability identified
in FLOW99. Revalidated
in FLOW01 and FLOW03.
TOMORROW
EIDE
 Eliminate stovepipes
 Lower costs (reduced interfaces)
 Enable system-wide interoperability
Precision Logistics
 Reducing footprint through AIT and data standards –
interoperability solutions!
Unique Identification (UID)
Integrated situational awareness of people, places, and things
Today – No UIIs
No integrated planning view
Requirement: capability to
integrate force structure
planning for identifying and
constituting deployable
combined force modules.
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RFID Tracking
Questions
To Be State – UIIs
Integrated planning view
People, things and
property related to
force structure.
Deployment and
constitution options
can be continuously
evaluated.
Required items
identified, preWho is available? positioned and
With what
tracked with RFID.
equipment?
Where are they
People and things
now?
can be identified to
How long can we sites and facilities for
support them?
rapid deployment
response.
Questions answered
Presenter Details
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Steven Arnett
Defense Logistics Information Service
Deputy Chief, International Division
DLIS-KI/U.S. National Codification Bureau
Federal Center
74 North Washington Avenue
Battle Creek, MI 49017-3084 USA
PHONE/FAX: 269-961-7299
E-MAIL: Steven.Arnett@dla.mil
Web: http://www.dlis.dla.mil/nato/default.asp
Web Links Recommended for Contractors
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Commercial and Government Entity Codes (CAGE) - http://www.dlis.dla.mil/cageserv.asp
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NATO Codification System - http://www.nato.int/structur/AC/135/NCS/index.htm.
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NATO National Codification Bureau (NCB) Points of Contact http://www.nato.int/structur/AC/135/NCS/contact.htm
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Central Contractor Registration (CCR) Homepage – http://www.ccr.gov
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Federal Business Opportunities - http://www.dodbusopps.com.
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U.S. General Supply Services Administration (GSA) Federal Supply Service Information http://www.fss.gsa.gov/
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How to Become a GSA Federal Supply Schedule Partner http://www.fss.gsa.gov/schedules/do_biz.cfm
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FLIS on the Web - https://webflis.dlis.dla.mil
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Interactive Government Industry Reference Data Edit and Review (iGIRDER)- http://www.dlis.dla.mil/igirder/default.asp