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PURPOSE. This Instruction:

a. Reissues DoD Directive (DoDD) 5025.1 (Reference (a)) as a DoD Instruction (DoDI) in accordance with the guidance in Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense Memorandum (Reference (b)) and the authority in DoDD 5105.53 (Reference (c)).

b. Incorporates and cancels Reference (b) and Director of Administration and Management (DA&M) Memorandums (References (d) and (e)); cancels DoD 5025.01-M and DoD 5025.1-I (References (f) and (g)).

c. Updates policy, responsibilities, and procedures governing DoDDs, DoDIs, DoD Manuals (DoDMs), DoD Publications, DoD Directive-Type Memorandums (DTMs), and Administrative Instructions (AIs), hereafter referred to collectively as "DoD issuances" or "issuances."

d. Establishes the DoD Issuances Web Sites at http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives (unclassified) and http://www.dtic.smil.mil/whs/directives (classified) as the official DoD source for electronic publication of DoD issuances according to their releasability.

e. Establishes the DoD Directives Program Portals at https://(unclassified) and https://dps.whs.smil.mil (classified) as the official sites the OSD Components shall use to coordinate DoD issuances.

APPLICABILITY. This Instruction 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 (IG DoD), 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").