scope:

Purpose:

This issuance:

• Establishes policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes requirements for obtaining required U.S. Government and foreign national government clearances for:

o DoD personnel prior to travel to foreign territory.

o DoD aircraft operating in international and foreign national airspace.

o Use of foreign-national airfields by DoD state aircraft.

• Implements national policy on sovereignty of state aircraft and payment of state aircraft air navigation, overflight, landing, parking, or other use fees in foreign-managed and foreign-national airspace and at foreign-national airfields.

• Designates the Secretary of the Air Force as the DoD Executive Agent (EA) for the DoD Foreign Clearance Program (FCP) in accordance with DoD Directive (DoDD) 5101.01.

• Provides guidance for non-DoD agencies that utilize FCP policies, procedures, and systems on a voluntary basis, by agreement with the DoD EA for the FCP.