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FOREWORD

This Manual is issued under the authority of DoD Instruction 7750.07 (Reference (a)). It implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides specific procedures for management of the DoD Forms Management Program.

DoD 7750.7-M, "DoD Forms Management Program Procedures Manual," August 14, 1991, (Reference (b)) is hereby canceled.

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 the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities, and all other organizational entities in the Department of Defense (hereafter referred to collectively as the "DoD Components").

• The creation, coordination, printing, control, revision, cancellation, distribution, and use of forms within the Department of Defense; the processing and use of exceptions to existing forms; and the management of all forms regardless of medium (paper or electronic) or designation (data elements or fields, format, or information management tools). These forms include DoD (DD) Forms, Standard Forms (SFs), Optional Forms (OFs), and DoD Component forms (e.g., Secretary of Defense (SD) and Department of the Army (DA) Forms).

This Manual does not apply to:

• Forms used exclusively for cryptological activities, forms used only ONCE as part of a survey, or forms that are formats as defined in this Manual.

• Printed items without spaces for entering information such as instruction sheets, placards, tags, labels, and form letters. These items may be assigned form numbers and controlled through the DoD Forms Management Program only for purposes of referencing, stocking, inventory, and distributing.

This Manual effective May 7, 2008, and is mandatory for use by all the DoD Components.

Send recommended changes to this Manual to: Director, Washington Headquarters Services

Executive Services Directorate (Directives Division)

1155 Defense Pentagon, Room 3C842

Washington, DC 20301-1155

This Manual is cleared for public release. Copies may be obtained through the the DoD Issuances Web Site at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives.