scope:

PURPOSE.

This instruction reissues DoD Instruction 5000.60 (Reference (a)) in accordance with the authority in DoD Directive 5134.01 (Reference (b)) to:

a. Establish policy and assign responsibilities for assessing defense industrial capabilities.

b. Provide guidelines for DoD managers to use to determine:

(1) Whether a specific industrial capability is required to meet DoD needs, relies on specific characteristics that make it more efficient to sustain than to reconstitute later, and is truly endangered; and, if so,

(2) What, if any, action the DoD should take to ensure the continued availability of the capability.

c. Provide guidelines to establish appropriate uses of industrial base data to enable expanded data sharing and effective decision making across the DoD.