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The information associated with the entities - name, address, phone numbers, etc. - is catalogued in the [[Defense Standard#Definition of document types|H4 and H8 Handbooks]]. The National Codification Bureau (NCB) of each NATO or NATO-sponsored Nation is responsible for maintaining the CAGE code information for entities in these respective countries. There are on the order of 3 million entities in this catalog, of which around 2.6 million are US entities.{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}
Within the [[United States|US]], any organization wishing to be a supplier to the [[United States Department of Defense|DoD]] is issued a CAGE Code by [[Defense Logistics Information Service]] (DLIS), the organization serving as the US NCB. An entity issued a CAGE code must
CAGE is sometimes expanded as "Commercial Activity/Government Entity", "Contractor And Government Entity", or other, similar variations. However, according to the DLIS website, "Commercial And Government Entity" is the proper term. CAGE was previously known as '''Federal Supply Code for Manufacturers''', or '''FSCM''', which was also the '''National Supply Code for Manufacturer''', or '''NSCM'''. On older engineering drawings (pre-1980s) it was labeled simply as "Code Ident No" (Code Identification Number).{{citation needed|date=May 2018}}
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