1.1. Applicability.
a) This Manual applies to OSD, the Military Departments, the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the Joint Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Office of Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities within the DoD (referred to collectively in this issuance as the “DoD Components”).
b) Official DoD information online, DoD electronic messaging, and DoD electronic messaging services, including when used or operated by non-DoD-entities.
c) Contractors and other non-DoD entities that are supporting DoD mission-related activities, including accessing official DoD information online, conducting DoD electronic messaging, or operating electronic messaging, and electronic messaging services, to the extent provided in the contract or other instrument by which such authorized support or access is provided.
d) Does not apply to DoD Component public websites for penetration testing, communications security monitoring, defensive cyberspace operations, personnel misconduct and law enforcement investigations, and intelligence-related operations. Does not apply to information systems operated on behalf of the DoD but not used by DoD personnel. These activities remain subject to other legal and regulatory requirements such as records management.
1.2. Policy.
a. Reference (c) provides the overarching policy for this manual.
1.3. Information Collections.
(Section applicable only if issuance prescribes a DoD internal information collection). [Enter the formal information collection title], referred to in Paragraph [enter the appropriate paragraph citation(s) where the information collection is described or referred to in the issuance], has been assigned report control symbol [enter report control symbol] in accordance with the procedures in Volume 1 of DoD Manual 8910.01. [The issuance mustn’t be signed before the report control symbol is provided in the information collection requirements paragraph.]
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