scope:

Purpose:

In accordance with the authority in DoD Directive (DoDD) 5137.02 and pursuant to Section 133a of Title 10, United States Code (U.S.C.), this issuance:

•Establishes policies, assigns responsibilities, and provides procedures for assigning distributionstatements on technical information, including: research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E);engineering; acquisition; and sustainment information, to denote the extent to which the technicalinformation is available for secondary release and distribution without additional approvals orauthorizations.

•Establishes a standard framework and markings for managing, sharing, safeguarding, anddistributing technical information in accordance with national and operational security, privacy, recordsmanagement, intellectual property, Federal procurement, and export-control policies, regulations, andlaws.

•Aligns marking procedures for controlled technical information (CTI) in accordance with proceduresdescribed in DoD Instruction (DoDI) 5200.48 and Part 2002 of Title 32, Code of Federal Regulations(CFR).

•Helps originators of technical information determine to what extent it must be controlled inaccordance with DoDD 5230.25.