Engineer's Item Accreditation and Cataloguing Programme (EnIAC-P)

Overview
The Engineer's Item Accreditation and Cataloguing Programme (EIAC, EnIAC-P, or just simply EnIAC) is a program headed by the Civil Defense Department. It functions like the pre-apocalyptic patent office, save for the exclusion of intellectual property rights. Despite the name, engineers aren't the only people who submit applications to the program. The EIAC catalogues unique inventions by survivors and properly gives credit to the original builders, keeping technical schematics and diagrams regarding that particular item. Unlike an actual patent office, the program allows just about anyone to acquire a copy of the schematics of just about any item cataloged in the program's archives.

Application and archiving
Application is easy; simply walk up to any program outlet with detailed schematic diagrams of the item you wish to have catalogued. An item can be anything from a weapon to a complex system the size of a building. If one lacks the technical know-how to make diagrams, one can ask any number of his/her engineer friends, or go to the Civil Defense Department's (CDD) headquarters (Outpost 3) and the engineers there can draw up a technical diagram of whatever you wish. A notable exception is large, immobile objects outside of Outpost 3, where one has to pay an engineer from the CDD to go to the item's location. These usually require a wee price of 300 NCD credits, a currency used amongst NCD organizations. Trips to Outpost 1 and Outpost 6 require 800 credits (mostly to pay for security). Trips outside of the districts are disallowed.

Anywhere between 250 to 10,000 credits are granted to the applicant, depending on the significance of his/her submitted item.

Trivia

 * Director-2 helped to establish this program, but contrary to his intentions, Director-3/5 was the first entrant to the program.