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PURPOSE. This Directive:

Cancels references (a), (b), and (c), and establishes policy and assigns responsibility under the DoD Personnel Identity Protection (PIP) Program. The PIP shall be the Department of Defense's program for: addressing threats to the individual personal privacy of its Members, employees, and beneficiaries; establishing a secure and authoritative process for the issuance and use of identity credentials in the Department of Defense; and ensuring that DoD benefits and access to DoD physical and logical assets are granted based on authenticated and secure identity information.

APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE. This Directive applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Military Departments (including the Army, the Navy, the Air Force, the Marine Corps, and the U.S. Coast Guard when not operating as a Military Service under the Department of the Navy under agreement with Department of Homeland Security), the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of 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 in the Department of Defense, (hereafter referred to collectively as the "DoD Components").

This Directive also applies to the Commissioned Officers Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service under agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services; and the Commissioned Officers Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under agreement with the Department of Commerce.