Commercial Asset Visibility Air Force CAVAF

Commercial Asset Visibility Air Force (CAV AF) is the Air Force's web-based system of record for tracking government-owned reparable assets while they sit at contractor repair facilities. Contractors performing Contract Depot Maintenance (CDM) work use it to report receipt, induction, repair status, and shipment of end items and Government Furnished Material (GFM) on a daily basis, giving Air Force item managers continuous visibility into assets outside government custody.

What it is

CAV AF is the designated primary system of record for the daily status of all government-owned assets located at contractor repair facilities, per official Air Force contract guidance. Reporting covers not just end items under repair but also assets held at a contractor's Inventory Control Point (ICP). Contractors must report maintenance transactions — receipts, inductions, completions, and shipments — within one business day of occurrence, and the system generates a Record Control Document Number (RCDN) for each unit received, which contractors use for tracking and for the DD Form 1348-1A shipping paperwork.

Who operates it

CAV AF is an Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) system administered through the Inventory Control Points that manage Contract Depot Maintenance work: Tinker AFB (420th Supply Chain Management Squadron), Hill AFB, and Robins AFB. Each ICP maintains its own CAV AF System Administrator point of contact for training, password resets, and reporting questions; the directory lists Tinker AFB as the associated owner.

Access

CAV AF is not a public system. Contractor reporters must hold a valid PKI credential — a Department of Defense External Certificate Authority (ECA) certificate, obtained through a provider such as IdenTrust — and must submit a System Authorization Access Request (DD Form 2875) within 10 days of contract award, digitally signed, along with a completed DoD Information Assurance Cyberawareness Challenge certificate and an AF Form 4394 User Agreement Statement. Contract requirements call for at least two designated reporters per contract to avoid a lapse in coverage, and annual cyber-awareness recertification is required to keep an account active. There is no public self-service registration portal; access requests route through the applicable ICP's CAV AF System Administrator (for Tinker AFB: 420.scms.tinker.cdm.workflow@us.af.mil, (405) 739-3229).

How logisticians use it

Air Force item managers use CAV AF to monitor the status and location of reparable assets that have left government custody for commercial repair, supporting worldwide asset distribution and repair-requirement management. Contractor reporters use it to record daily transactions — receipts (including "on-contract" and "not-on-contract" categories), inductions, repair completions, and shipments — and to generate the DD Form 1348-1A shipping document tied to each transaction. The system also carries special handling requirements for Nuclear Weapon Related Materiel (NWRM), requiring serial-number-level tracking within one business day of receipt.

Related systems

CAV AF is the Air Force counterpart to the Navy's Commercial Asset Visibility (CAV) program, which serves the same function for Navy reparables at commercial repair facilities. Supply discrepancies encountered during CAV AF reporting are handled separately through the DoD's WebSDR (Supply Discrepancy Report) system rather than within CAV AF itself.