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STANAG 2495
STANAG 2495 data formats for asset tracking
Logistics, IT and label or RFID-tag suppliers who build or buy the systems that track material moving through NATO supply chains.
STANAG 2495 sets the data formats and identifiers NATO nations use on shipping labels and RFID tags to track material in transit. NATO has not released it publicly; this page describes it from the Czech defence standard that implements it, ČOS 990502.
- Edition
- 4
- Published
- 2017-04-26
NATO has not released this STANAG publicly. It is NATO UNCLASSIFIED, and organisations that need it obtain it through their national standardization authority.
What it is
STANAG 2495 is the NATO Standardization Agreement on data formats for asset tracking. Edition 4, promulgated in April 2017 under NATO's MC, MCLSB, AST and TP committee structure, it covers the publication AAITP-03, edition B. NATO has not released STANAG 2495 or AAITP-03 publicly. This page describes them from a public national implementation, the Czech defence standard ČOS 990502 (4th edition, Prague 2022), which states that it introduces STANAG 2495 edition 4 and AAITP-03 edition B into Czech armed forces use. A national implementation can add national requirements and reservations, so treat what follows as the Czech implementation's content, not as NATO's own text.
What the Czech implementation covers
ČOS 990502 states its aim as easing NATO material tracking at the interface between the Czech armed forces' own tracking system and the systems of other NATO member states, built on preferring ISO/IEC standards for encoding and decoding data onto and from data carriers. It defines mandatory and optional military data elements for encoding onto data carriers, including data labels and radio-frequency identification (RFID) tags used to track NATO material, and states that this meets the interoperability requirement for exchanging material-tracking information for consignments committed to NATO operations, set out in AAP-51.
The standard sorts NATO shipping labels into tiers: a label with the minimum agreed content, one with an optional extended content, one with a detailed scope, and RFID tags. The minimum-content label draws only on the basic data elements; the extended, detailed and RFID labels draw on both the basic data elements and the data qualifiers the standard also sets out.
The identifiers that make tracking interoperable
The basic data elements set out how a shipment is identified, with creation rules for four unique tracking identifiers built on the GS1 system: the Serial Shipping Container Code (SSCC), an 18-digit number carried under application identifier 00, assigned to a single transport package; the Global Shipment Identification Number (GSIN), 17 digits under AI 402, assigned by the sender to group several packages travelling under one consignment note or waybill; the Global Document Type Identifier (GDTI, AI 253), used to link a consignment that has been split and dispatched separately; and the Global Identification Number for Consignment (GINC, AI 401), assigned by the carrier to a consignment as a whole. The data qualifiers add the data identifiers, data element identifiers, application identifiers and text element identifiers used on the extended, detailed and RFID labels, maintained on NATO's behalf by the US Department of Defense (US TRANSCOM J5/4T); NATO member states are told to avoid application identifiers 91 to 99.
A public NATO publication that cites STANAG 2495, AAITP-02, confirms this division of labour. It states that "The data elements for use with the labels in this publication are described in STANAG 2495", and that the mandatory qualifier standards are "GS1-128 symbology - GS1 Application Identifiers (AI)" and "PDF 417 - ANSI/FACT Data Identifiers (DI), ATA Spec 2000 Text Element Identifiers (TEI), DOD Data Element Identifier (DEI)."
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