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PURPOSE. This Instruction:

a. Reissues DoD Directive (DoDD) 5000.60 (Reference (a)) as a DoD Instruction in accordance with the guidance in DoD Instruction 5025.01 (Reference (b)) and the authority in DoDD 5134.01 (Reference (c)).

b. Updates the policy and responsibilities for assessing defense industrial capabilities. The purpose of the assessment is to ensure that the industrial capabilities needed to meet current and future national security requirements are available and affordable.

c. Provides guidelines for DoD managers to use to determine:

(1) Whether a specific industrial capability is required to meet DoD needs, is truly unique, and is truly endangered; and, if so,

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

APPLICABILITY

a. This Instruction applies to:

(1) 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 within the Department of Defense (hereafter referred to collectively as the "DoD Components").

(2) All goods and services procured by the Department of Defense.

b. The DoD Components shall assess industrial capabilities on a case-by-case basis when there is a known or projected problem. The guidelines in this Instruction shall be used when a DoD acquisition manager, inventory control point manager, or other buyer determines there is a substantial risk that an industrial capability needed to support DoD programs or products may be lost. For capabilities used by more than one DoD program or product, the DoD Components should coordinate analyses and related decisions with other affected DoD Components and programs.