The Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and Nuclear Issue & Inventory System manages over $1.5 million in CBRN protective equipment per carrier command — and eliminates the roughly $125,000 in gear lost to paper accountability each deployment cycle.
Pen-and-paper accountability doesn't scale to carrier-sized commands.
Gas masks. Kit bags. Canisters. Filters. For every Sailor on the roster, a command is accountable for multiple pieces of CBRN protective equipment — and historically, that accountability has lived on paper forms passed between divisions and stuffed into filing cabinets.
Forms get lost. Personnel transfer. Items walk away. When it's time for an audit or a recovery, the trail is cold — and the cost lands squarely on the command's bottom line. CBRN-IIS was built and hardened against the hardest version of this problem: a carrier. The same digital accountability applies just as well to smaller commands.
One digital system for the full equipment lifecycle.
Scan the Sailor's CAC, verify identity, and pull their profile instantly. No forms to fill, no filing cabinet to dig through.
Scan each item's barcode — gas mask, kit bag, ancillary gear — and the system records every serial against that Sailor.
On return, scan the CAC and the serial. The software verifies the right item is coming back from the right person before release.
Every transaction is logged. Pull audit-ready reports by Sailor, department, item, or date in seconds — and recover outstanding assets fast.
Purpose-built for CBRN equipment accountability.
Recognizes CAC, gas mask, and kit bag barcodes automatically — no mode switching, no wrong-field errors.
Every piece of equipment is tied to a specific Sailor. Check-in and check-out verified at the moment of transaction.
Know exactly what's on hand, what's issued, and what's overdue — without spreadsheet reconciliation or a musty binder.
One-click reports by Sailor, department, division, item type, or date range. Built for IG inspections and recovery actions.
Every scan, issue, receive, and correction is logged with timestamp and user — a full chain of custody you can point to.
Pull existing sizing data, rollup data, and legacy spreadsheets directly into the system — no data re-entry from scratch.
Hardened on the hardest command type — and adaptable to smaller ones.
Development and testing have focused on aircraft carriers: the largest, most personnel-dense commands in the fleet, where paper-based accountability breaks down fastest and loses the most.
The architecture scales down as cleanly as it scales up. In a recent test aboard USS Arlington (LPD-24), CBRN-IIS accepted the ship's entire CBRN outfitting into inventory in less than half a day — a process that previously required days of manual data entry and reconciliation.
We're actively working with Navy units and welcome inquiries from commands and services evaluating a replacement for their current CBRN inventory process. Department of the Navy is where we are today; Department of Defense is where we're headed.
The people who stood the watches are the ones who wrote the software.
CBRN-IIS wasn't spec'd in a conference room by contractors who've never walked a passageway. It was built by sailors doing the job — designed around the actual workflow of checking in a Sailor, scanning a CAC, issuing a mask, and accounting for every serial at end of cycle.
Damage Controlman First Class, currently on active duty. Brings day-to-day fleet experience with CBRN equipment issue, inventory, and the pain of paper-based accountability to every design decision in the system.
Aviation Electronics Technician First Class, retired. Decades of hands-on Navy experience combined with software engineering — translating the operational requirements into a tool that holds up under deployment conditions.
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