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DoDD 5200.27 — Acquisition of Information Concerning Persons and Organizations Not Affiliated with the Department of Defense

DoDD 5200.27 is listed as current Current
in the DoD Issuances 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 1980-01-07 — 46.6 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.

Branch	Department of Defense
Series	DoDD
Publication date	1980-01-07 (46.6 years ago)
Status	Current
Proponent / OPR	DA&M
Source of record	DoD Issuances

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If DoDD 5200.27 changes, who else is affected

Functional community	Publications	Which ones
Investigations	3	DAFI 71-101V1, AFPD 71-1, DAFPD 71-1
Flying Operations	2	DAFMAN 11-501, AFMAN 11-2UH-1NV3
Law	1	DAFI 51-508

6 publications in 3 other communities depend on this one. 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 DoDD 5200.27

DAFI 71-101V1 — Criminal Investigations Program Current 3 mentions
AFPD 71-1 — Criminal Investigations and Counterintelligence Not in the current catalog 2 mentions
DAFMAN 11-501 — Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems Management Current 2 mentions
DAFPD 71-1 — Criminal Investigations And Counterintelligence Current 2 mentions
AFMAN 11-2UH-1NV3 — Flying Operations UH-1N Helicopter Operations Procedures Current 1 mention
DAFI 51-508 — Political Activities, Free Speech and Freedom of Assembly Current 1 mention
HAFMD 1-20 — The Inspector General Current 1 mention
SPFGM 2026-14-01 — Proper Use of Commercially Available Information (CAI) for United States Space Force (USSF) Intelligence Missions Current 1 mention

If DoDD 5200.27 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 DoDD series

DoDD 5160.59 — Delegation of Authority Under Executive Order 11390 Current
DoDD 5160.62E — DoD Executive Agent for Military Explosive Ordnance Disposal Technology and Training Current
DoDD 5160.64E — Legal Information Technology Current
DoDD 5200.31E — DoD Military Working Dog (MWD) Program Current
DoDD 5200.37 — Defense Human Intelligence Current

This is an unofficial index built from the public catalog. The controlling copy is always the one on DoD Issuances — verify there before citing DoDD 5200.27 in an official product.