FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT POLICY MANUAL

. Common-Service Activity. A common-service activity is an operating
agency providing a support-type service utilized by two or more DoD
components on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis.
c. Operating Agency. An operating agency is the organization established
or designated by the single manager for the purpose of carrying out the
single manager assignment. The Military Sealift Command is an example
of an operating agency organized as a common-service activity.
d. Executive Director. The executive director is the official designated by
the single manager to manage the operating agency. He directs and
controls all assigned functions subject to the authority, direction, and
control of the single manager.
3. SINGLE MANAGER ASSIGNMENTS. When the Secretary of Defense
has made a specific assignment, the other military departments progressively
will eliminate duplicate functions and activities that have become the
responsibility of the single manager. Specific single manager assignments to
the Department of the Navy (DON) include:
a. ocean transportation, for which the Military Sealift Command (MSC)
has been designated as the operating agency;
b. explosive ordnance disposal technology and training (EODT&T), for
which the Armed Forces Explosive Ordnance Center, Department of the
Navy, has been designated as the operating agency under which the Naval
Ordnance Disposal Facility and the Naval School, Explosive Ordnance
Disposal, are responsible for EOD research technology and mission
training support respectively;
3. procurement of a variety of commodities and services.
4. COMMON TYPE SPECIALIST TRAINING. By mutual agreement
between the military departments, common type specialist training which
qualifies an individual to perform an individual function in more than one
military service, is conducted where possible under single manager concepts.
The military department accepting single manager responsibility by means of
a specific agreement for the provision of interservice courses of instruction in
a given area of technical specialty provides school facilities and accepts
students from participating military services.
5. BUDGET POLICY
a. General. Each military department and Defense Agency budgets for
material or identifiable services received from a designated single
manager except that training is conducted on a nonreimbursable basis for
DoD personnel.
b. Ocean Transportation. Operations of MSC are carried out under
NWCF (see par. 074601). All users budget for services provided by MSC.
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