Aviation Storekeeper Information Tracking System (ASKIT) and Aviation Cost Evaluation System (ACES)

ASKIT (Aviation Storekeeper Information Tracking System) and ACES (Aviation Cost Evaluation System) are a linked pair of Navy aviation-supply systems: ASKIT is the unit-level tool that Navy and Marine Corps aviation storekeepers use to manage requisitions and financial data, and ACES is the fleet-level system that consumes ASKIT data to produce the Navy's official flying hour cost reports. Both are contractor-built and contractor-hosted (CACI) on behalf of Naval Air Forces commands, and both require an authorized login — they are not open to the general public.

What it is

ASKIT automates material requisitioning, requisition tracking and follow-up, and financial data processing for aviation supply units. Per CACI's own program description, ASKIT feeds roughly one-third of the data used by ACES. ACES is described as the joint flying hour cost collection system, covering three functions — flying hour execution, budget management, and planning — and it produces the monthly official Flying Hour Cost Report (FHCR) by combining ASKIT-reported fuel, maintenance-fund, flight-hour, and fuel-expenditure data with other cost inputs (fuel, maintenance, contract costs) against operational metrics (flight hours, aircraft counts). Reports are retrieved through a companion web portal called the "ACE Reporter."

Who operates it

ACES/ASKIT support Naval Air Forces flying-hour cost management, with CACI's program materials naming Commander, Naval Air Forces, U.S. Pacific Fleet (COMNAVAIRPAC) and Commander, Naval Air Forces, U.S. Atlantic Fleet (COMNAVAIRLANT), along with Marine Corps aviation commands (e.g., Marine Forces Pacific), as the user commands. CACI is the contractor that develops and hosts both systems (aces.caci.com, askit.caci.com) under contract to the Navy; no dedicated public program office page or help desk contact is published on either site.

Access

Both systems require an authorized login (the ACES portal presents a standard username/password form, not a CAC/PIV certificate prompt) and are restricted to Navy Logistics Support (LS) rating personnel, Marine Corps supply/accounting specialists, supply officers, and aviation storekeepers at eligible commands. The ACE Reporter is designated a Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) system. Neither vendor site publishes a public account-request form, help-desk email, or phone number; new users would request access through their command's supply/logistics chain rather than a self-service portal. The directory's prior "public" classification does not reflect this — the systems are gated to authorized fleet personnel.

How logisticians use it

Aviation storekeepers and supply officers use ASKIT day to day to requisition material, track and follow up on open requisitions, and process supply-related financial transactions at the squadron/unit level. That data flows into ACES, which naval aviation budget and readiness analysts use to generate the monthly official flying hour cost report — a key input to flying-hour program budgeting and execution tracking (CACI's materials describe the flying-hour program this data supports as a multibillion-dollar effort).

Related systems

ASKIT/ACES sit within the broader Navy aviation supply and readiness data ecosystem alongside systems such as NAVSUP's aviation supply chain tools and Naval Aviation Enterprise readiness/maintenance data systems; they are distinct from ship-level OPTAR/financial systems that feed similar budget-execution reporting for other communities.