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CAV AF SYSTEM ACCESS

REQUIREMENTS FOR

CONTRACTOR REPORTERS

Repair contractors must provide all completed training and documentation requirements listed below, within

10 days of contract award, to the issuing AF Inventory

Control Point (ICP):

1. Complete and digitally sign the System Authorization Access Request (SAAR), DD Form 2875.

2. A Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificate (Medium token assurance) from an authorized vendor must be annotated on DD Form 2875 block 28.

3. Complete and digitally sign the AF User Agreement, AF Form 4394.

4. A DoD Cyber Awareness Challenge training completion certificate. This is a reoccurring annual training requirement.

TECHNICAL CONSIDERATIONS FOR

SYSTEM ACCESS:

To ensure connectivity to the CAV AF website the contractor must allow ports 443 and 4443 open in both directions. Both of these ports are secure ports and although most companies have 443 open they don’t usually have 4443 open as it is a standard port. If the contractors are running a proxy server on their network, they must also include the https://www.cavaf.com website as one of their trusted sites.

MAINTAINING ACCESS

It is the responsibility of each contractor reporter to maintain an active CAV AF User ID account. Under DoD system security requirements, inactive User ID accounts shall be “disabled” after 30 days and “deleted’ after 45 days from last log-on. Immediately call your applicable point-of-contract listed below to regain or establish access:

ICP POINTS-OF-CONTACT

COMMERCIAL

ASSET

VISIBILITY

AIR FORCE

(CAV AF)

REPAIR CONTRACTOR REPORTING SYSTEM

Parts on Target

420 SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT SQUADRON

3001 Staff Drive, Post 1AH1-91A

Tinker AFB, OK 73145

405-734-8363 https://www.cavaf.com/

WHAT IS CAV AF?

Commercial Asset Visibility Air Force (CAV AF) is the contractual compliance reporting system for all

Contract Depot Maintenance (CDM) repair requirements and Government Furnished Material

(GFM) receipts/issues. It provides 100% visibility of all Air Force assets at the contractor facility during the repair process by quantity and condition code count.

Ultimately, CAV AF provides repair data for asset accountability and requirement forecasting.

REPAIR VS NEW BUY

CAV AF is an Air Force version of the Navy’s parent system, CAV; both are used by the contractors as the authoritative government source system to report daily transactions pertaining to contract repair workload. CAV AF reporting is a major contributing factor in forecasting and budgeting AF requirements.

As a result, timely and accurate reporting can determine the difference between budgeting for future requirements through repairs or new buys, both or none at all.

The diagram below illustrates the current AF repair versus buy budgets and further breaks down the percentages of contract and organic (in-house) by supply locations.

WHY IS CAV AF

IMPORTANT?

To improve cost efficiency, the AF increasingly relies on contractors instead of organic capabilities to perform depot-level maintenance. This partnership with contractors requires the AF to provide a systemic solution, via CAV AF, to better manage contract repair workload. As such, contractor reporting is an essential component in forecasting AF requirements and is vital in supporting the Warfighters.

As illustrated below, timely and accurate contractor reporting in CAV AF provides the necessary data to determine supportability of current backorders and future demands. Additionally, CAV AF reporting can help both, the Air Force and the contractor, in minimizing variability of future delivery order requirements, which ultimately, can have a major impact to the overall bottom dollars.

HOW DOES CONTRACTOR

REPORTING IMPACT AF

STRATEGIC GOALS?

In order to deliver Lt. Gen. Bruce Litchfield’s “Art of the Possible” results, the following strategic goals are established in the area of contract repair:

Maintain 100% asset visibility at the contractor facility by timely and accurately reporting in CAV AF. Government and contractor personnel are responsible for ensuring all movements of assets are visible at all times: from depot shipment to contractor receipt, from repair induction to serviceable production, and from contractor shipment to customer delivery. As such, it has always been a contractual obligation to perform CAV AF reporting within 24 hours of actual supply or maintenance occurrence.

Reduce lag time between Wide Area Workflow (WAWF) and CAV AF production reporting to $0.

While WAWF reporting is important to contractors getting paid upon repairing an asset, it is just as imperative to report in CAV AF, timely and accurately, to maintain 100% accountability of assets. Eliminating lag time between WAWF and CAV AF reporting can ultimately improve supportability.

Reduce initial asset variance to 0%. When orders are issued, timely and accurate CAV AF reporting provides daily feeds of asset posture and quarterly feeds of production and condemnation quantities to downstream demand forecast and budget systems. Thereby, eliminating any unnecessary manual file-maintenance adjustments or corrections from the initial input or system overlays would improve efficiency of the workforce and support of the Warfighters.