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AFI 65-601V2 — Budget Management for Operations

AFI 65-601V2 is listed as current Current
in the AF e-Publishing catalog as of our last index refresh (2026-08-23). Status is mirrored from that catalog, re-checked weekly — every change is logged. Note: its publication date is 2021-01-29 — 5.6 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.

Branch	U.S. Air Force
Series	AFI
Publication date	2021-01-29 (5.6 years ago)
Status	Current
Proponent / OPR	SAF/FM
Source of record	AF e-Publishing

Download PDF Official document (AF e-Publishing)

What changed in this edition

This document has been substantially revised and needs to be completely reviewed. Major changes include changes to organizational symbols, regulatory instructions, processes and procedures used in the financial management (FM) and oversight of the Department of the Air Force O&M appropriation to include: Tier Waiver Authorities as directed by DAFI 33-360 and the removal of guidance regarding civilian pay and Attachment 6, civilian manpower funding, execution, and reporting
— Summary of Changes, AFI 65-601V2, quoted from the official PDF

Publications state their own changes on page 1 — behind a PDF the official host will not serve to a search engine. This is that section, verbatim. It describes the edition above, not every historical change.

If AFI 65-601V2 changes, who else is affected

Functional community	Publications	Which ones
Acquisition	1	AFMAN 63-143
Maintenance	1	AFI 21-101 ACC Sup

2 publications in 2 other communities depend on this one, which Financial Management owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.

Publications that cite AFI 65-601V2

AFI 21-101 ACC Sup — Aircraft And Equipment Maintenance Management Current 1 mention
AFMAN 63-143 — Centralized Asset Management Procedures Current 1 mention
DAFI 15-129 — Air And Space Weather Operations Current 1 mention

If AFI 65-601V2 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.

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Nearby in the AFI series

AFI 65-501 — Economic Analysis Current
AFI 65-503 — Financial Management Us Air Force Cost and Planning Factors Current
AFI 65-508 — Cost Analysis Guidance and Procedures Not in the current catalog
AFI 65-601 Volume 1 — Budget Guidance and Procedures Not in the current catalog
AFI 65-603 — Emergency and Extraordinary Expense Authority Current

This is an unofficial index built from the public catalog. The controlling copy is always the one on AF e-Publishing — verify there before citing AFI 65-601V2 in an official product.