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Accountability, every branch.

Tool rooms, SKOT, hand receipts, and command visibility — Army to Space Force.

Who we serve

One accountability standard — every branch, and the contractors who support them.

  • U.S. Army
  • U.S. Navy
  • U.S. Marine Corps
  • U.S. Air Force
  • U.S. Coast Guard
  • U.S. Space Force

Plus the National Guard, Reserve, and the defense contractors who support them.

Force readiness

Proven in the Army. Built for the force.

The numbers came from one Army maintenance site. The discipline is already written into every branch's doctrine — and into the FAR for the contractors who hold government property.

U.S. Army
01U.S. Army99.87% inventory accuracy · 3,000+ toolsDA 3161 hand receipts, DA 5513 key-and-padlock control, calibration gating, GCSS-Army sync — the loop that produced the numbers.Proven · NCARNG MATES
National Guard & Reserve
02National Guard & ReserveMATES · FMS · CSMS tool roomsTRACS went operational at the North Carolina Guard's MATES — 200+ personnel, issue and return time cut in half.Fielded · NCARNG · 2014
U.S. Air Force & Space Force
03U.S. Air Force & Space ForceAFI 21-101 · CTK control · FOD-criticalYour doctrine already demands positive CTK accountability. TRACS makes it provable — every issue, return, and inventory.
U.S. Navy & Marine Corps
04U.S. Navy & Marine CorpsNAMP 4790.2 · Tool Control ProgramThe NAMP writes tool control into every maintenance action — TRACS makes the count provable at every shift change.
Unmanned / ISR
05Unmanned / ISRGCS & launch-recovery kits · cross-branchUnmanned platforms cross service lines. Their GCS and launch-recovery kits have to arrive complete — and provably so.
Defense contractors
06Defense contractorsFAR 52.245-1 · GFP accountabilityGovernment-furnished tooling carries the same burden of proof — custody, calibration, records ready for a DCMA audit.

The problem

Manual tool rooms cost readiness.

Paper hand receipts, missed calibrations, and unaccounted SKOT slow issue/return and put inventories at risk. ELM's control loop makes every movement auditable.

The cost of doing nothing

What a manual tool room costs you every year — before a single failed inventory.

ELM · FIELD RECORD
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Portable tools lost / yr [1]
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Per person/yr hunting tools [1]
$0B
FOD damage to aviation / yr [3]
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Consecutive failed DoD-wide audit [4]
0×
Longer on inventory, manual · MATES [2]
0×
Longer on issue/return, manual · MATES [2]
MIL-STD-810H · IP-65 · ELM-7220A
  1. [1]ABAX — tool-loss study (5–10% of inventory lost/yr; ~38 hrs/yr per worker searching)
  2. [2]ELM — NCARNG MATES deployment (75% less inventory time, 50% less issue/return → manual runs 4× / 2× longer)
  3. [3]SKYbrary / Boeing — foreign object damage costs the aerospace industry ~$4B per year
  4. [4]Breaking Defense — DoD fails 7th consecutive department-wide audit (FY2024); $4.1T in assets, disclaimer of opinion

Cost of inaction

Run your numbers.

Adjust to your operation. This is what DoD / Military pays, every year, to stay manual.

ELM · COST MODEL
Annual cost of staying manual

Operation parameters

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people
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$/hr
$183,300
  • Tool shrinkage$37,800
    7%/yr of tool value lost — ABAX
  • Manual inventory labor$13,500
    3 min/tool × 2 counts/yr × labor rate
  • Issue / return labor$132,000
    ≈220 draws/person/yr × 4 min × labor rate

Time cost in hours and labor

Inventory + issue/return time3,233 hrs/yr
Time saved per year1,692 hrs/yr
75% less inventory time, 50% less issue/return — documented at MATES.
ELM-recoverable per year$98,805

Removes 75% of inventory time and 50% of issue/return (documented at MATES), plus ~60% of preventable tool loss.

Recover this — claim it in a field brief

Estimate only, from your inputs and the cited benchmarks below. Not a quote.

MIL-STD-810H · IP-65 · ELM-7220ACOST OF INACTION

The control loop, here

What it looks like in your theater.

  • Authorized issue with hand-receipt logic
  • Calibration & inspection alerts
  • Semiannual inventory & audit exports
  • Command-level visibility

Solve it for DoD / Military.

A readiness review maps your workflows, operational risks, and the best-fit control model.

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