MIL-STD-130N
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UST - TEI for universal serial tracking number
VIN - vehicle identification number
VICD - vendor item control drawing
3.2 Term Definitions.
Acquiring activity. The element of the agency/command that identifies and initiates a contract requirement or may have been tasked by another agency/command to be responsible for developing the contract requirement and monitoring the acquisitions. This can either be a Government or contractor flow-down to their suppliers.
Acquisition instrument identification number. The Government acquiring activity's contract or purchase order number. When an order shows both a contract number and a purchase order number, the number used is determined by the acquiring activity.
Acquisition Streamlining and Standardization Information System (ASSIST). The official database containing information about standardization documents used in the DoD. ASSIST also provides electronic access to government documents included in the database over the Internet. ASSIST can be accessed at https://assist.dla.mil.
Altered item. An item whose drawing delineates the physical alteration of the existing item under the control of another design activity or defined by a nationally recognized standard. The drawing type permits the required alteration to be performed by any competent manufacturer including the original manufacturer, the altering design activity, or a third party. It establishes a new item identification for the altered item. (In accordance with (IAW) ASME Y14.24)
Application Identifier (AI). The field of two or more characters at the beginning of an element string that uniquely defines its format and meaning. (IAW GS1 General Specifications)
NOTE: For IUID marking, allowable AIs are listed in Table VII and explained in Table VI
notes.
Approved Item Name. The name which is selected (approved by the Directorate of Logistics Information Management, DLIS, as the official designation for an item of supply), and delimited where necessary, to establish a basic concept of the item of supply to which the item belongs and with which it should be compared. It may be a basic name, or a basic name followed by those modifiers necessary to differentiate between item concepts having the
same basic name. Approved item names, basic names, and colloquial names are published in the Federal Item Name Directory for Supply Cataloging (Cataloging Handbook H6). (IAW DoD 4100.39-M).
Article. A nonspecific term used to denote any unit or product including materials, parts, assemblies, equipment, accessories, and computer software.
Assembly. A number of parts or subassemblies or any combination thereof joined together to perform a specific function and subject to disassembly without degradation of any of the parts (e.g., power shovel-front, fan assembly, audio-frequency amplifier).
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