Surface Warfare Center (Crane, IN), MICOM (now AMCOM) and TACOM, and found not to meet required performance levels.
While all of the above remains unchanged, we know that some units operating within Southwest Asia have attempted to requisition MILITEC-1 for small arms lubrication purposes. Although we have not approved MILITEC-1 for standard Army use, commanders in theater are being given the discretion to requisition this product for a limited time based on their
operational needs. We have instructed the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) to remove the block on small arms related requisitions of MILITEC-1 National Stock Numbers (NSNs) for 60 days (ending June 18, 2003). This is an interim allowance, and this change does not signify that MILITEC-1 is approved or standardized for general worldwide Army use. After the 60-day requisition window for MILITEC-1 closes, TACOM will conduct an assessment of the application and performance of MILITEC-1. Pending the outcome of this assessment, which will be conducted in coordination with our soldier-customers, a path forward will be determined. There is no change to our previously stated position that MILITEC-1 is unsuitable as an engine additive.
Your April 4th letter, as with most of your others recent messages, contains claims and allegations which are not conducive
to reaching a fact-based conclusion. We believe that elaborating point-by-point on such claims would elevate emotions.
Rather, we prefer to rely on the results of our assessment to provide the data needed to begin addressing your claims. Your letter also lists several federal and state agencies that have ordered MILITEC-1. While results from non-DOD users may be of some interest, our assessment will focus on the specific needs of the Army and our DOD customers.
In addition to the review and assessment that we will conduct after the 60 day trial, we invite Militec to consider the
following two options. One, to help us determine the accuracy of your claims, we invite you to submit MILTTEC-1 to an independent test and evaluation conducted by Southwest Research Institute (SwRI), a premier and independent non-DOD research organization located in San Antonio, TX. SwRI can establish a test and evaluation suite for both CLP qualified products and non-CLP products, such as MILITEC-1. The tests and evaluations will be structured along the lines of the Qualified Products List (QPL) and industry norms, as a repeatable, comparative standard that must be met. It will be a full and open comparison
between MILITEC-1 and other commercial products. We intend to invite other non-CLP qualified product vendors to participate as well. We will not make a unique case for your product or anyone else's. In addition, we will consider the proposal only if Militec, and any other interested, non-qualified product vendors, intends to pay for the testing as required by Standardization Document (SD)-20, "THE DOD QUALIFICATION PROGRAM (How to use it)". Please understand that this is
what your competitors, the vendors on the QPL, were required to do.
Two, if you have reasons to believe that DOD's military specification for CLP can be improved, we invite you to provide beneficial comments (recommendations, additions, deletions) and any
