Department of Defense Guide to Uniquely Identifying Items (Ver. 3.0) (02-DEC-2014)

Department of Defense Guide to Uniquely Identifying Items (Ver. 3.0) (02-DEC-2014)., This guide is intended for use by Department of Defense (DoD) contractors and their suppliers who apply item unique identification (IUID) Data Matrices1 to new items during production, as directed in the contract. This guide is also intended for use by the DoD Components and their agents, who are required to apply IUID Data Matrices on applicable legacy items in inventory and in operational use. Within these user communities, the targeted audience is the user of automatic identification technologies, such as barcodes and barcode readers.