Army Regulation 702–12

Product Assurance

Quality
Assurance
Specialist
(Ammunition
Surveillance)
Program

Headquarters
Department of the Army
Washington, DC
30 August 2012

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 SUMMARY of CHANGE
AR 702–12
Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance) Program

This major revision, dated 30 August 2012-

o Changes the title Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance) to

Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance) Program (cover).

o Adds explosives safety policy and standards responsibilities for the Director
of Army Safety, Office of the Chief of Staff, Army (para 1-4b).
Headquarters *Army Regulation 702–12
Department of the Army
Washington, DC
30 August 2012 Effective 30 September 2012

Product Assurance

Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance) Program

ammunition managed by the U.S. Army Suggested improvements. Users are

Materiel Command. During mobilization, invited to send comments and suggested
policies contained in this regulation may improvements on DA Form 2028 (Recom-
be modified by the proponent. mended Changes to Publications and
Proponent and exception authority. Blank Forms) directly to Deputy Chief of
The proponent of this regulation is the Staff, G–4 (DALO–SUM), 500 Army
Deputy Chief of Staff, G–4. The propo- Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310–0500.
nent has the authority to approve excep-
tions or waivers to this regulation that are Committee management. AR 15–1 re-
consistent with controlling law and regu- quires the proponent to justify establish-
lations. The proponent may delegate this ing/continuing committee(s), coordinate
approval authority, in writing, to a divi- draft publications, and coordinate changes
sion chief within the proponent agency or in committee status with the U.S. Army
its direct reporting unit or field operating Resources and Programs Agency, Depart-
agency, in the grade of colonel or the ment of the Army Committee Manage-
civilian equivalent. Activities may request ment Office (AARP–ZA), 9301 Chapek
History. This publication is a major a waiver to this regulation by providing Road, Building 1458, Fort Belvoir, VA
revision. justification that includes a full analysis of 22060–5527. Further, if it is determined
Summary. This regulation implements the expected benefits and must include that an established “group” identified
authority and responsibilities for the con- formal review by the activity’s senior within this regulation, later takes on the
duct and management of the Quality As- legal officer. All waiver requests will be characteristics of a committee, as found in
surance Specialist (Ammunition endorsed by the commander or senior the AR 15–1, then the proponent will fol-
Surveillance) Program and the general leader of the requesting activity and for-
low all AR 15–1 requirements for es-
qualifications and placement guidance for warded through their higher headquarters
to the policy proponent. Refer to AR tablishing and continuing the group as a
program careerists. It also correlates committee.
Headquarters, Department of the Army re- 25–30 for specific guidance.
sponsibilities in managing the Army Ex- Army internal control process. This Distribution. This publication is availa-
plosives Safety Program and related regulation contains internal control provi- ble in electronic media only and is in-
quality assurance specialist (ammunition sions in accordance with AR 11–2 and tended for command levels B for the
surveillance) support. identifies key internal controls that must Active Army and C for the Army Na-
Applicability. This regulation applies to be evaluated (see appendix B). tional Guard/Army National Guard of the
the Active Army, the Army National Supplementation. Supplementation of United States and the U.S. Army Reserve.
Guard/Army National Guard of the United this regulation and establishment of com-
States, and the U.S. Army Reserve, unless mand and local forms are prohibited with-
otherwise stated. It also applies to sup- out prior approval from the Deputy Chief
ported Joint U.S. Military Assistance Ad- of Staff, G–4 (DALO–SUM), 500 Army
visory Groups and DOD installations, Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310–0500.
activities, and commands that receive,
store, maintain, issue, use, and dispose of

Contents (Listed by paragraph and page number)

Chapter 1
General, page 1
Purpose • 1–1, page 1
References • 1–2, page 1
Explanation of abbreviations and terms • 1–3, page 1

*This regulation supersedes AR 702–12, dated 9 January 2003.

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Contents—Continued

Responsibilities • 1–4, page 1

Chapter 2
Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance) Program, page 1
Ammunition surveillance • 2–1, page 1
Program responsibilities of quality assurance specialist (ammunition surveillance) careerists • 2–2, page 1
Assignment and management of quality assurance specialist (ammunition surveillance) personnel • 2–3, page 2

Chapter 3
Area Support Responsibilities to Off-Post Customers, page 2
Area Support to off-post customers • 3–1, page 2
Communications • 3–2, page 4

Appendixes
A. References, page 5
B. Internal Control Evaluation, page 6
Table List

Table 3–1: Quality assurance specialist (ammunition surveillance) technical assistance, page 3

Glossary

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Chapter 1
General
1–1. Purpose
This regulation provides the authority and sets forth the responsibilities to conduct and administer the Quality
Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance) (QASAS) Program and the general qualifications and placement
guidance for careerists in this program. It also establishes functions the QASAS performs in maintaining the Army’s
readiness and warfighting capabilities; therefore, exempting them from private-sector performance. This regulation
directs QASAS area and off post support responsibilities.

1–2. References
Required and related publications and prescribed and referenced forms are listed in appendix A.

1–3. Explanation of abbreviations and terms

Abbreviations and special terms used in this publication are explained in the glossary.

1–4. Responsibilities
Responsibilities are listed in paragraphs 1–4 and 2–2.
a. Deputy Chief of Staff, G–4 (DCS, G–4) will—
(1) Direct and provide guidance for and oversight of the Ammunition Surveillance Program.
(2) Program and fund the resources needed to conduct the Ammunition Surveillance Program.
(3) Coordinate with Director of Safety, Office of the Chief of Staff, Army on explosives safety policy and standards
to provide for QASAS coordination and explosives safety assistance to the field.
b. Director of Army Safety, Office of the Chief of Staff, Army will—
(1) Have Army staff responsibility for the Army’s safety and explosives safety programs as defined in AR 385–10
and DA Pam 385–64.
(2) Coordinate explosives safety policy and standards with the DCS, G–4 (DALO–SUM) to provide QASAS
coordination and explosives safety assistance to the field.
c. Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command will—
(1) Be the functional chief of the QASAS civilian career program (CP).
(2) Provide QASAS support to DOD installations, activities, and commands that receive, store, maintain, issue, use,
and dispose of munitions (also referred to as ammunitions and explosives (AE)).
(3) Will designate an individual to serve as the QASAS Program’s functional chief representative.
d. The QASAS Program’s functional chief representative will provide broad program operating policy guidance and
direction and oversee career program management through semiannual in-process reviews and by serving as the
Chairman, QASAS CP Management Committee.
e. The Director, U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center, per the Commanding General, AMC, will manage,
administer, and operate the QASAS civilian CP.
f. The Career Program Manager for CP–20, Ammunition Civilian Career Management office is responsible for the
day-to-day overall management of the QASAS CP.

Chapter 2
Quality Assurance Specialist (Ammunition Surveillance) Program
2–1. Ammunition surveillance
a. Ammunition surveillance includes the following:
(1) Quality assurance and logistics functions related to the inspection, storage, receiving, issuing, testing, and
classification of AE.
(2) Functions that affect explosives safety during handling, storage, transportation, maintenance, use, and disposal of
military munitions.
(3) Core functions of inspecting and determining the reliability of the Army’s military munitions stockpile, inspect-
ing and monitoring military munitions-related operations for compliance with explosives safety requirements, and
protecting the Army’s warfighting assets and the public from unnecessary exposures to explosives hazards.
b. AR 740–1, complemented by AR 702–6, and SB 742–1, establishes the Ammunition Surveillance Program and
prescribes policy, assigns duties, and outlines goals.

2–2. Program responsibilities of quality assurance specialist (ammunition surveillance) careerists

QASAS careerists will—

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 a. Develop, manage, and execute the Ammunition Surveillance Program.
b. Conduct tests and studies to assess serviceability or deterioration of military munitions.
c. Inspect and/or monitor military munitions-related operations for regulatory compliance.
d. Develop and/or approve procedures and apply controls so that military munitions logistical operations (for
example, storage or maintenance issue) comply with explosives safety policy and procedures.
e. Develop, analyze, and apply information about design, production, modification, disposal, and reliability of
military munitions.
f. Provide technical assistance to the Army, including matters related to military munitions management, including
research, development, test and evaluation, explosives safety, and compliance with applicable federal and state
regulations (for example, Environmental Protection Agency’s Military Munitions Rule) and Department of Defense and
Army Implementing policy and guidance.
g. Serve as explosives safety officers (in the absence of qualified occupational safety and health managers).

2–3. Assignment and management of quality assurance specialist (ammunition surveillance)

personnel
a. The Ammunition Civilian Career Management office assigns QASAS to fill positions by directed placement and
manages the recruitment, training, assignment, and promotion of QASAS personnel.
b. Commands, to which QASAS as assigned, supervise, rate, and provide performance appraisals for assigned
QASAS (see AR 702–6, AR 740–1, and SB 742–1).
c. During deployment for contingency or wartime operations, QASAS support may be obtained through the Army
command (ACOM), Army service component command (ASCC), direct reporting unit (DRU), or DCS, G–4.
d. Senior-level QASAS who are assigned to the U.S. Army Defense Ammunition Center will—
(1) Inspect, review, and assess military munitions operations for effectiveness per AR 700–13.
(2) Identify issues affecting the Army’s mission performance and provide recommendations to address them.
(3) Provide onsite technical assistance for military munitions malfunctions, accidents, and incident investigations.
(4) Assist with the development of military munitions logistics policy and procedures to conclude the effective
implementation and sustainment of automatic identification technology.
(5) Advise on technical matters affecting stockpile reliability and explosives safety.
(6) Provide technical assistance to plan, develop, construct, and modify military munitions equipment and facilities.
(7) Assist in the implementation of explosives safety standards and assess and monitor the use of those standards
during military munitions related operations such as:
(a) Use and/or handling.
(b) Storage.
(c) Transportation.
(d) Maintenance.
(e) Demilitarization.
(f) Testing.
(g) Training.
(8) QASAS personnel will be rotated through all available job assignments consistent with personnel staffing
resources and mission requirements. Although adjustment of intervals and order of assignment are at the discretion of
the QASAS in charge, as a rule:
(a) Journey persons will rotate at 6-month intervals.
(b) First-line supervisors will rotate at 1-year intervals.

Chapter 3
Area Support Responsibilities to Off-Post Customers
3–1. Area Support to off-post customers
a. QASAS will provide military munitions surveillance support as specified in SB 742–1 to ACOMs, ASCCs,
DRUs, and commanders of Installation Management Command regions publications during peacetime and mobiliza-
tion. Support agreements will document specific support requirements, including funding for travel and per diem
expenses of the support provider. ACOMs, ASCCs, DRUs, and Installation Management Command unit commanders
may recommend revisions to QASAS functional responsibilities in table 3–1 to accommodate future Army
restructuring.
b. Technical support visits by QASAS will normally be conducted:
(1) At 12-month intervals, but will not normally exceed 15 months.
(2) Upon request of the supported installation.

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 c. Military munitions support includes the following areas:
(1) Military munitions storage.
(2) Military munitions transportation.
(3) Military munitions malfunctions-support provided by AR 75–1.
(4) Military munitions suspension and/or restrictions.
(5) Propellant stability program.
(6) Review of standard operating procedures and local regulations pertaining to munitions operations.
(7) Mobilization assistance.
(8) Inspection (or approval of inspection procedures) for military munitions that affect the readiness of the unit.
(9) Reviewed units are responsible for checking military munitions, including missile suspensions and restrictions at
least weekly using the Munitions History Program, which is available at https://mhp.redstone.army.mil.
(10) Explosives safety support. Although safety directors and managers are responsible for management of their
respective explosives safety management programs, QASAS personnel are available to provide technical assistance
upon request in the following areas:
(a) Development of the Department of Defense Explosives Safety Board required explosives safety submissions (for
example, explosives site plans or explosives licenses).
(b) Preparing explosives safety certifications of risk acceptance and identifying mitigation measures to reduce
potential risk.
(c) Reviewing protective construction designs for military munitions operational facilities (for example, production,
manufacture, testing, storage, surveillance, maintenance, demilitarization, and disposal facilities for compliance with
explosives safety standards).
(d) Conducting safety inspections of military munitions handling, storage, use, maintenance, and disposal areas that
should be conducted at least annually.
(e) Monitoring AE uploads and other activities that involve the transportation, storage, or conducting of other
military munitions-related operations to help ensure compliance with applicable requirements; particularly for such
operations for which a certificate of risk acceptance has been approved or is awaiting approval.
(f) Assisting garrisons and installations in the master planning process and reviewing, annually, master plans to
ensure construction or major modifications are not planned within an explosives safety quantity distance arc.
(g) Reviewing explosives safety quantity distance compliance for existing and planned facilities, both prior to and
after constructions.
(h) Reviewing standard operating procedures and directives for compliance with explosives safety requirements.
(i) Evaluating military munitions-related activities, including but not limited to:
1. Production, storage, handling, maintenance, operating, demilitarization, and disposal.
2. Transportation.
3. Explosives safety training.
(j) Participating, when requested, in accidents, incidents, or mishaps investigations involving military munitions.
(k) Evaluate explosives safety submission policies and procedures to help ensure compliance during the conduct of
operational and tactical military munitions related activities such as—
1. Siting and operation of military munitions storage areas (for example, ammunition holding areas, ammunition
transfer points, and basic load ammunition storage areas).
2. Siting of uploaded tactical vehicles.
3. The provisions of relief in place and transfer of authority for military munitions-related operations.
4. The establishment of locations for and processing of captured AE.
5. Retrograde, reconstitution, and reset activities in a tactical area of operation that involve military munitions.

Table 3–1
Quality assurance specialist (ammunition surveillance) technical assistance
Headquarters, Army support command is responsible for providing installation-level director of logistics support including QASAS tech-
nical assistance to units within the limits of its available resources. Units requiring QASAS technical assistance should develop and co-
ordinate a memorandum of agreement or an intra-service support agreement with the supporting Army field support brigade (AFSB) for
the required technical assistance. The memorandum of agreement or intra-service support agreement should outline the technical as-
sistance needed and how funding for such assistance will be provided.
Responsible organization for providing support (see note 1). State or territory (see note 2).
403rd AFSB HI, American Samoa, Marshall Islands, Guam, Mariana Islands
404th AFSB AK, CA, ID, NV, OR, UT, WA

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Table 3–1
Quality assurance specialist (ammunition surveillance) technical assistance—Continued
406th AFSB AL, CT, DE, FL, GA, KY, LA, ME, MD, MA, MI, MS, MO, NH, NJ,
NY, NC, OH, PA, RI, SC, TN, VT, VA, WV
407th AFSB AZ, AR, CO, IL, IN, IA, KS, MN, MT, NE, NM, ND, OK, SD, TX, WI,
WY, Puerto Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands
Notes:
1 The AFSBs listed in this table are responsible for providing QASAS support upon request to the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps, the U.S. Army Reserve,

and installations within their geographic area with a military munitions mission, but without an assigned QASAS.
2 The Army support command’s AFSBs are the primary provider for Active Component and Active Army and Reserve sites. The National Guard is the pri-

mary provider for the National Guard sites.

3–2. Communications
Communications on administering the QASAS Career Program will be sent to the Director, U.S. Army Defense
Ammunition Center (SJMAC–AVO), McAlester, OK 74501–9053.

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Appendix A
References

Section I
Required Publications

AR 385–10
The Army Safety Program (Cited in para 1–4b(1).)

AR 700–13
Worldwide Ammunition Review and Technical Assistance Program (Cited in para 2–3d(1).)

AR 702–6
Ammunition Stockpile Reliability Program (Cited in paras 2–1b, 2–3b.)

AR 740–1
Storage and Supply Activity Operations (Cited in paras 2–1b, 2–3b.)

Section II
Related Publications
A related publication is a source of additional information. The user does not have to read it to understand this
publication.

AR 10–87
Army Commands, Army Service Component Commands, and Direct Reporting Units

AR 75–1
Malfunctions Involving Ammunition and Explosives

AR 690–950
Career Management

AR 700–116
U.S. Army Ammunition Management in the Pacific Theater

DA Pam 385–64
Ammunition and Explosives Safety Standards

SB 742–1
Inspection of Supplies and Equipment Ammunition Surveillance Procedures (Available at https://www.logsa.army.mil/)

Section III
Prescribed Forms
This section contains no entries.

Section IV
Referenced Forms
Unless otherwise indicated, DA Forms are available on the APD Web site http://www.apd.army.mil.

DA Form 11–2
Internal Control Evaluation Certification

DA Form 2028
Recommended Changes to Publications and Blank Forms

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Appendix B
Internal Control Evaluation
B–1. Function
The function of this checklist is to provide guidance for the conduct of the management of the QASAS Program.

B–2. Purpose
The purpose of this checklist is to assist the QASAS program manager in evaluating the accomplishment of the CP 20
program objectives.

B–3. Instructions
Answers must be based upon the actual testing of controls (for example document analysis, direct observation,
interviewing, sampling, and/or others). Answers that indicate deficiencies must be explained and the corrective action
indicated in the supporting documentation. These internal controls must be evaluated at least once every 5 years and
then certified on DA Form 11–2 (Internal Control Evaluation Certification).

B–4. Test questions

a. Does the career management office recruit personnel to meet authorized program levels?
b. Does the career management office provide adequate training personnel to meet program objectives?

B–5. Supersession
Not applicable.

B–6. Comments
Help make this a better review tool. Submit comments to the Deputy Chief of Staff, G–4 (DALO–SUM), 500 Army
Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310–0500.

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Glossary
Section I
Abbreviations

ACOM
Army command

AE
ammunitions and explosives

AFSB
Army field support brigade

ASCC
Army service component command

CP
career program

DCS, G–4
Deputy Chief of Staff, G–4

DRU
direct reporting unit

QASAS
quality assurance specialist (ammunition surveillance)

Section II
Terms

Quality assurance specialists (ammunition surveillance)

Quality assurance specialists (ammunition surveillance) are Department of the Army civilians, GS–1910 series (CP 20).
They accomplish the Ammunition Surveillance Program functions at Department of Defense installations, activities,
and commands that receive, store, issue, maintain, dispose, perform surveillance on, or test ammunition.

Section III
Special Abbreviations and Terms
This section contains no entries.

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