Te intended result, said Chris Mahoney, manufacturing quality lead for Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division China Lake, CA, is to simplify things for both the government and the contractor. He


explained the benefit


to contrac-


tors: “Say you’re a contractor who has a Navy contract, an Air Force contract and an Army contract, and they have three different clauses. It causes some head- aches” for all concerned when “there are different requirements that should be common requirements.”


For example, said Rick Boyle, QA spe- cialist at JMC, “Before, we had varying timelines” in requirements. “Te Navy and the Air Force have some of their own unique requirements that were in a separate clause. Sometimes the CDRLs would get confused,


[and] they would


end up picking up on the wrong CDRL, or the wrong CDRL may get included in the contract, so what [the MSE clause] will do is make sure that we only have one CDRL” that will go into the contract.


Tat, said Patel, could significantly reduce non-value-added overhead.


“Here’s a simple example,” he said: “You may have an older commercial refer- ence on one requirement and a newer commercial


reference on another


requirement, but they’re really the same requirement” with very little difference.


“Tey’re both commercial standards that industry uses—it’s just that one has the latest variant of it.” Te bottom line, according to Patel, is that “it’s a lot of minutiae that creates non-value-added overhead requirements on the contractor to do further analysis, when we really don’t have to have them spend that time and energy doing so.”


Te SQI held an MSE industry day in December 2013 to address any concerns among suppliers regarding the details


KEEPING THE RECORD STRAIGHT SPC Henryon Russell, left, SSG Ricky Sheppard and SSG Yolandia Quinn catalog ammunition, explosives and spent munitions during a Mine Resistant Ambush Protected Vehicle ammunition abatement inspection Oct. 12, 2013, at the Camp John Pratt Redistribution Property Assistance Team yard, Afghanistan. The process of delivering high-quality ammunition to the U.S. military involves a number of players, including ARDEC and JMC, which are conducting the pilot of the new MSE clause. (U.S. Army photo by SFC Timothy Lawn, 1st Theater Sustainment Command Public Affairs)


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