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PURPOSE

a. Manual. Pursuant to DoD Instruction 8260.03 (Reference (a)), the authority in DoD Directive (DoDD) 5124.02 (Reference (b)), and in accordance with DoDD 8320.03 (Reference (c)), this Manual implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures and rules for the electronic documentation of force structure data across the Department of Defense.

b. Volume. Volume 1 of this Manual sets forth responsibilities and procedures for the UID of force structure data in software application programs known as GFM organization servers (OSs) and includes:

(1) The generation of force management identifiers (FMIDs) for internal use by OSs.

(2) The integration into force management systems external to the OSs of that subset of FMIDs titled organization unique identifiers (OUIDs).

(3) Acquiring seed values for use as FMID prefixes from the Enterprise-wide Identifier (EwID) Seed Server (ESS), the chosen technical implementation for FMIDs.

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