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1. ORIGINATOR: Navy, Naval Inventory Control Point, NAVICP M5823, DSN 430-4300 or 

commercial 717-605-4300

2. FUNCTIONAL AREA: Primary: Supply; Secondary: Maintenance

3. REQUESTED CHANGE: 

a. Description of Change: This change reassigns the use of Service and Agency Code V 

applicable to Routing Identifier Codes (RICs) to the Navy. Although the Service and Agency 

Code V belongs to the Navy for DoDAAC assignment, its use in RICs does not. The V-series 

when used as the RI-To is currently assigned to the National Aeronautics and Space 

Administration (NASA) for use in logistics transactions (NASA also used as RI-From). Under 

this ADC, all new RIC assignments in the V-series will belong to the Navy for use to designate 

Navy contractor locations. Any existing V-series RI values previously assigned for NASA will be 

deleted. To satisfy NASA requirements, new RICs in the appropriate G-series will be assigned in 

coordination with the General Services Administration (GSA). Existing NASA RICs are 

identified in the enclosure. A six month period will be allowed to transition from the existing 

RICs to correct new RICs.

b. Background: This change was originally coordinated in 2003 by Proposed DLMS 

Change (PDC) 103. At that time, the Navy was not ready to move forward and the ADC 

publication was placed on hold. The additional requirements of the Navy Enterprise Resource 

Planning (ERP) as described under the reason for change have made formal publication and 

programming updates a necessity. During the original staffing, NASA indicated that they did not 

wish to forfeit their use of the V-series without further evaluation or exhaustion of all other 

alternatives. After re-coordination with NASA, a continued requirement for some existing RICs 

has been identified by NASA specific to the material returns program and preparation of the DD 

1348-1A. Since dual use by NASA and the Navy would add a level of complexity with 

applications attempting to identify the Service/Agency, it was agreed that the existing RICs may 

be deleted and replacement RICs assigned as needed. The values for the existing RICs will not be 

reused by the Navy until all other available codes are assigned.

c. Procedures: Revise DOD 4000.25-1-M (MILSTRIP), Appendix 2.2, Service and Agency 

Codes, and DLMS Dictionary, as follows: 

Old: 

CODE 4 30 31 45 46 67 74 S/A REMARKS

V V NASA 

V V V Navy 

V V V Not Assigned 

New: 
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CODE 4 30 31 45 46 67 74 S/A REMARKS

 

V V V Navy 

V V V V Navy Contractor Use Only1 

1 Effective August 15, 2009. Refer to ADC 102. Existing V-series NASA-assigned routing 

identifies will carry a delete effective date of August 15, 2009.

4. REASON FOR CHANGE: 

 a. Contractors transmit, receive, and process 80 rp MILSTRIP and MILSTRAP or DLMS 

transactions in logistical support of the Navy and use RICs to identify their facilities. The Navy 

requires the capability to distinguish Navy military activities from Navy contractors. Q-series 

RICs, currently used to distinguish Navy contractor RICs, will soon be exhausted; assignment of 

V Service Code to Navy in rp 4, 67, and 74, will assist Navy to meet increasing ongoing 

requirements to provide a unique RI to contractors supporting the Navy. Navy contractors will 

continue to use Service Code Q in rp 30 and 45. Navy has about 1000 vendors that report 

material movements to the Navy that do not have valid RICs; they are represented with “pseudo” 

RICs starting with X or Y in internal Navy systems. Since the use of X or Y RICs for Navy is not 

permitted in DAASC, transactions are not routed through DAASC for Navy Dispatch Vendors 

today. Navy ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning system) policy is that all MILSTRIP traffic is to 

be routed through DAAS to reduce development costs and to take advantage of DAAS's ability to 

send transactions to Navy ERP in using DLMS message structures. 

 b. Currently, all Civil Agency RICs, with the exception of NASA, are assigned under 

Service Code G (including GSA, FAA, VA, etc.). There is no known justification for an 

exception.

5. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES: 

 a. Advantages: Using this solution, Navy will be able to meet Navy ERP policy 

requirements to assign valid RICs to the facilities of “Navy Dispatch Vendors” established in 

ERP. Furthermore, DAAS will be able to accept logistics information transmitted from the 

Electronic Retrograde Management System (ERMS). 

 b. Disadvantages: None identified. 

6. IMPACT: 

 a. Programming: Programming changes will be required to recognize V-series RIC as 

Navy contractors. 

 b. Phased Implementation: By agreement, the Navy will not re-use the previously 

assigned NASA routing identifiers until all other codes have been exhausted, thereby avoiding any 

potential conflicts. Current NASA RI values are: V18, V19, V80, V86, V88, V92, V93, V94, 

V95, V96, V97, V98. The following steps for transition are planned. 
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 c. February 2009: GSA identifies new RIC values for activities identified in the 

enclosure to this ADC. GSA Action: GSA updates DAAS Routing Identifier Table with new 

values which will be available for immediate use and assigns a delete effective date August 15, 

2009, to the existing NASA V-series RICs. 

 d. February - August 2009: For a period of time the NASA AACs will be associated 

with two routing identifiers. DAASC Action: The DAAS inquiry, which links DoDAAC to 

Routing Identifier, will display the GSA-assigned NASA RICs on DoDAAC queries. The original 

RICs will display only when requested on a RIC-specific query. 

 e. February - July 2009: NASA will update internal programs to use new RIC values. 

 f. March 2009: Navy ERP testing begins using V-series RICs (test data only). 

 g. August 15, 2009: Navy assigns V-series RICs (skipping over values previously used 

by NASA) to the DAAS Routing Identifier Table. The Navy is authorized to use V-series RICs 

on processed via transactions subsequent to August 15, 2009 (projected for ERP, February 2010). 

7. PUBLICATIONS: Publications affected include: 

• NAVSUP P-485, Volume II, Appendix 7 

• DOD 4000.25-1-M, MILSTRIP 

• DOD 4000.25-1-S1, MILSTRIP Routing Identifier and Distribution Codes 

• DOD 4000.25-M, DLMS 
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Enclosure: NASA Routing Identifiers in V-Series 

The following is a list of V-series Routing Identifiers assigned to NASA at the time of 

publication. 

Curren

t 

RI 

New RI 

Required 

(Yes/No) 

New 

RI Assigned for NASA: AAC AAC Status 

 

1 V18 Y G71 NASA Ames Research Center 809101 

2 V19 Y G72 NASA Langley Research Center 803301 

3 V80 Y G73 NASA Marshall Space Flight Ctr 804101 

4 V88 N ----- NASA Goddard Space Flight Cntr 803201 No record of AAC 

5 V86 Y G74 NASA John F Kennedy Space Cntr 804200 

6 V92 Y G75 NASA Transportation Ofc 807402 

7 V93 Y G76 NASA Lewis Research Center 805501 

8 V94 Y G77 NASA Dryden Flight Research Cntr 809103 

9 V95 N ---- NASA National Space Technology 804415 Deletion date 

2008150 

10 V96 Y G78 NASA Wallops Flight Center 803303 

11 V97 Y G79 NASA Aerospace Operations 807478 

12 V98 N DYNCORP Technical Services GDS 

WFF 

803345 Deletion date 

2005273