This Catalog is reissued under the authority of DoD Directive 4525.6, "Single Manager for Military Postal Service," May 5, 1980. Its purpose is to provide uniform procedures for administration of postal supply and equipment. The procedures prescribed in this Catalog are in accordance with the U. S. Postal Service / DoD Postal Agreement.

This Priorities and Allocations Manual is issued under the authority of DoD Directive 4400.1, "Defense Production Act Programs," October 12, 2001. This Manual prescribes uniform procedures to be followed by all persons delegated priorities and allocations authority, includes those persons involved with awarding or administering contracts for research, development, engineering, acquisition, production, manufacturing, or construction.

This Manual is issued under the authority of DoD Instruction 5000.2, "Defense Acquisition Management Policies and Procedures," February 23, 1991. It prescribes policies and procedures for DoD acquisition and management of technical data.

This Manual is reissued under the authority of DoD Directive 8910.1, "Management and Control of Information Requirements," June 11, 1993. It provides guidance to program managers and action officers who need to obtain information from the public, other Federal Agencies, or the DoD Components and provides them with the procedures necessary to license their information requirements. It also provides guidance to assist information management control officers on the operation of their reports management programs.

This Regulation is authorized by DoD Instruction 4715.6, "Environmental Compliance," April 24, 1996 (reference (a)). This Regulation implements Section 213(d) of the Clean Water Act (Section 1322 of title 33, United States Code (U.S.C.) (reference (b)) by issuing standards governing the design, construction, installation, and operation of marine sanitation devices (MSDs) in pubic vessels owned or operated by the Department of Defense. This regulation also implements Annex I of the 1973 International Convention for the Prevention of Pollution From Ships, including the 1978 Protocol thereto...

On March 10, 2005, the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness requested the DoD Inspector General perform a review of the DoD/VA care transition process for Service members injured in OIF/OEF, including medical hold and medical holdover programs in each of the Services (see Appendix A). In May 2005, the DoD Assistant Inspector General for Inspections and Evaluations met with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Force Health Protection and Readiness to discuss project scope and identify objectives. Attendees agreed that the announced objectives would concentrate on the...

This Manual reissues DoD 5110.4-M (Reference (a)) in accordance with the authority in DoD Directives 5105.53 and 51104 (References (b) and (c)) to provide guidance for managing the correspondence of the Secretary of Defense (SedDef), Deputy Secretary of Defense (DepSecDef), and Executive Secretary (ExecSec) of the Department of Defense as well as OSD and OD Component correspondence. This Volume describes the administrative processes of OSD and DoD correspondence, to include providing procedure for preparing and submitting SecDef, DepSecDef, and ExecSec correspondence; incorporates and cancels...

Security spans the Department of Defense and is essential to protecting its resources. For this reason, the DoD has long sought to create a corps of well trained, competent security personnel to support protection efforts. Properly applied, a capable security structure can be effective in the possible deterrence of another Fort Hood or WikiLeaks incident. Several security reviews and audits have assessed the state of security training and certification, both within the Federal Government and specific to the DoD, and have made recommendations to further enhance the professionalization and...

Beginning in April 2008, the Secretary of Defense and the Inspector General, Department of Defense (DOD IG) received letters from numerous members of Congress requesting inquiries into the issues raised in an April 20, 2008, New York Times article, "Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand." Members of Congress also requested concurrent inquiries from the Comptroller General, Government Accountability Office (GAO), and the Federal Communications Commission for (1) a legal opinion on whether DOD violated laws related to propaganda, and (2) an opinion on whether the military analysts received...

Over the past decade, Congress passed legislation to address its concern regarding allegations of contractor and U.S. Forces' involvement in sexual slavery, human trafficking, and debt bondage. Prior to 2000, allegations of sexual slavery, sex with minors, and human trafficking involving U.S. contractors in Bosnia and Herzegovina led to administrative and criminal investigations by U.S. Government agencies. In 2002, a local television news program aired a report alleging that women trafficked from the Philippines, Russia, and Eastern Europe were forced into prostitution in bars in South Korea...