June 19: The office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense requires that reissued directives include a summary of the changes made. The DoD directive action memo and processing procedures have been updated and a sample is available: Directives_Reissuance_Samples
Effective June 15, 2012: DoD issuance standards formatting changed for consistency and per the Plain Writing Act of 2010. Issuances currently in the formal coordination, presignature, or legal sufficiency review stages will not be required to change to the new formatting. Issuances with changes will no longer be highlighted in red. Click here for a summary of changes made.
Effective June 1, 2012: AI/DA&M Processing Procedures have changed. These changes affect all offices within DA&M that develop DoD issuances for DA&M, Director, WHS, or DepSecDef signature
May 9: the SD Form 106 has been updated to remove GC, DoD from the list of coordinators as they no longer review during this stage.
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FEDERAL REGISTER ISSUANCES
DOD ISSUANCE EXPIRATION
WHAT'S NEW & SUBSCRIBE
Guidelines for processing DoD issuances that must be in the Federal Register are now available on the DoD Issuances Website. The following forms can be found within the Federal Register tab on the Supporting Documents webpage:
Effective for DoD issuances published on or after March 26, 2012: In accordance with Deputy Secretary of Defense Memorandum, "Improving Department Guidance – Department of Defense Issuances," all new issuances, and all existing issuances when they are next reissued or changed, will expire after 10 years if they have not been reissued or cancelled in accordance with DoD Instruction 5025.01 or granted an extension by the OSD Director of Administration and Management.
The What's New web page contains updates of both new issuances and issuances that have been recently cancelled. You can also subscribe (or unsubscribe) to the weekly DoD Issuances email...
TOP 10 REQUESTED ISSUANCES
IMPORTANT LINKS
SEARCHING FOR DOD ISSUANCES
DoD 8570.01-M, Information Assurance Workforce Improvement Program
DoDI 8510.01, DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP)
DoDI 5000.02, Operation of the Defense Acquisition System
DoDM 5200.01, Vol. 1-3, DoD Information Security Program: Vol. 1, Overview, Classification, and Declassification
Vol. 2, Marking of Classified Information
Vol. 3, Protection of Classified Information