Source codes .

9-6115-652-14&P

b. Source

Maintenance

and

Recoverability

Codes

(SMR).

(CoIumn

2).

(1) S o u r c e c o d e s .

GENERAL: Source Codes are assigned to support items to indicate the manner of acquiring support items for

maintenance, repair, or overhaul of end items. Source codes are entered in the first and second positions of the

Uniform SMR Code format as follows:

Definition

Code

Item procured and stocked for anticipated or known usage.

Item procured and stocked for insurance purposes because essentiality

dictates that a minimum quantity be available in the supply systems.

Item procured and stocked and which otherwise would be coded PA

except that it is deteriorative in nature.

Support item, excluding support equipment, procured for initial issue or

outfitting and stocked only for subsequent or additional initial issues or

outfittings. Not subject to automatic replenishment.

Support equipment procured and stocked for initial issue or outfittings to

specified maintenance repair activities.

Support equipment which will not be stocked but which will be centrally

procured on demand.

Item procured and stocked to provide for sustained support for the life

of the equipment. It is applied to an item peculiar to the equipment which

because of probable discontinuance or shutdown of production facilities

would prove uneconomical to reproduce at a later time.

An item of depot overhaul/repair kit and not purchased separately. Depot

kit defined as a kit that provides items required at the time of overhaul or

repair.

An item of maintenance kit and not purchased separately. Maintenance

kit defined as a kit that provides an item that can be replaced at unit, direct

support or general support level of maintenance.

Item included in both a depot overhaul/repair kit and a maintenance kit.

Item to be manufactured or fabricated at unit level.

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