This regulation is to establish policy and procedures for the provision of engineering support by the Military Departments to the Defense Logistics Agency and to the General Services Administration. It is applicable to DLA and the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and has been concurred in by GSA. It encompasses engineering support for:
a. DLA. All DLA-managed items except those items of industrial production equipment managed by the Defense Industrial Plant Equipment Center. It includes also the procedures by which DLA may obtain solutions to technical problems, essential to DLA operations, that may require the initiation of Extended Engineering Effort by the Military Departments.
b. GSA. All items managed for the DoD in accordance with the Agreement between the Department of Defense and the General Services Administration Governing Supply Management Relationships under the National Supply System. It includes also the procedures by which GSA may obtain solutions to technical problems, essential to GSA operations, that involve engineering determinations and may require the initiation of Extended Engineering Effort by the Military Departments.
