MIL-STD-130 Identification Marking Of U.S. Military PropertyThis standard provides the item marking criteria for development of specific marking requirements and methods for identification of items of military property produced, stocked, stored, and issued by or for the Department of Defense DoD. This standard addresses criteria and data content for both free text and machine-readable information MRI applications for identification marking of U.S. military property.

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b.   Legibility shall be as required for human readability.  For human-readable information, which is not prescribed by one of the applicable MRI protocols in 5.2.2, the recommended minimum character height for human-readable text is shown in Table I.

TABLE I.   Recommended minimum character height.

4.4  Identification plates, identification tags, and identification bands.  Metal and stiff plastic identification plates, tags and bands, along with their attaching provisions, shall conform with the requirements of MIL-DTL-15024, MIL-DTL-19834, or GG-P-455 as applicable, to the extent specified in the contract or order.

4.5  Deleterious effect.  Marking of items shall be accomplished in a manner that will not

adversely affect the item's ability to meet its required performance.

4.6  Abbreviated information.  When size limitations, adverse impacts, or other considerations preclude marking all applicable information on an item (i.e., some marking space does exist and the requirements of 4.1.b are met), mark only the most essential information as shown in Figure 10.

4.7  Type of lettering/characters.  Letters shall be capitals without serifs (sans serif), such as ARIAL, FUTURA, GOTHIC, TREBUCHET MS, or other sans-serif font.  Numerals shall be Arabic except when Roman numerals are used for type designation per applicable Government or industry specifications and standards.  The "hyphen (-)" and "forward slash (/)" symbols are allowed.  Generating characters by automated processes (e.g., dot peen, laser, interactive graphics systems, or stencils) shall be the preferred method.

4.8  Variable marking information.  When applicable (i.e., required by detail specification or in the acquisition document), supplementary information shall be marked on the item in addition to the detail requirements in Section 5.

4.9  U.S. marking to indicate Government ownership.  The designation "U.S." or "US" shall be marked only when specified in the detail (commodity) specification, or in the acquisition document (see 5.1.1.3).

4.10  Vendor item control items.  Items depicted on vendor item control drawings (VICD) (see 3.2) shall be marked with the source's PIN preceded by the source's EID (see 3.2).  The VICD number shall not be used to physically re-identify the item from the source's identification.  In the event that a VICD item is a commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) item (see

3.2), refer to 5.1.2.a.

4.11  IUID designated items.  Moved to 5.1.1.2.

4.12  Associated Data Item Descriptions (DID).  When it is necessary to contractually create the data for IUID marking and registration, the applicable DIDs shall be listed on the Contract Data Requirements List (DD Form 1423) (see 6.8).

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