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<p>The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) has mandated that every component that meets certain cost  and management criteria in the Department of Defense's (DoD) tangible inventory must have a valid Item Unique  Identification (IUID) mark by December 2010. The IUID program is expected to increase force readiness, enhance  the lifecycle management of assets, and provide more accurate asset valuation to achieve unqualified audit opinions  on DoD financial statements. One of the challenges of the program is to achieve IUID-marking saturation throughout  in-use, or legacy, inventories with minimal interruption of operational readiness. The purpose of this project is to  propose an effective implementation strategy for the legacy items that meet the DoD's requirements for IUID marking  in the US Marine Corps M1A1 Abrams tank community. This plan could potentially serve as a model for other  communities facing the challenge of IUID implementation. This project examines different implementation  alternatives and identifies and develops the determined best course of action. In addition, an estimation of the costs to  implement the chosen plan will be provided for comparison and decision-making purposes.
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<br>Subjects: Item Unique Identification; IUID; Legacy Components; M1A1 Abrams MBT; CFO Act 1990</div>
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<dl><dd>Blakiston, Edward Y.</dd>
<dd>Jennings, Richard A.</dd>
<dd>Punzel, Carl J.</dd></dl></div>
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