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DoDI 3115.12 — Open Source Intelligence (OSINT)

DoDI 3115.12 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 2010-08-24 — 16.0 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.

Branch	Department of Defense
Series	DoDI
Publication date	2010-08-24 (16.0 years ago)
Status	Current
Proponent / OPR	USW(I&S)
Source of record	DoD Issuances

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If DoDI 3115.12 changes, who else is affected

Functional community	Publications	Which ones
Intelligence	3	AFMAN 14-405, AFPD 14-4, AFRCI 14-101
Investigations	1	DAFI 71-101V4

4 publications in 2 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 DoDI 3115.12

SPFGM 2026-14-01 — Proper Use of Commercially Available Information (CAI) for United States Space Force (USSF) Intelligence Missions Current 7 mentions
AFMAN 14-405 — Multiple Source, Discipline, and Domain Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (isr) Current 2 mentions
AFPD 14-4 — Management of the Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Cyber Effects Operations Enterprise Current 2 mentions
DAFI 71-101V4 — Counterintelligence Current 2 mentions
AFRCI 14-101 — Open-Source Intelligence And Publicly Available Information Program Management Current 1 mention
CFETP 1N0X1 — All Source Intelligence Analyst Current 1 mention
HAFMD 1-33 — Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Current 1 mention
HAFMD 2-4 — Deputy Chief Of Space Operations For Intelligence Current 1 mention

If DoDI 3115.12 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 DoDI series

DoDI 3115.08 — Collection of Information on Non-U.S. Persons Outside the United States at the Request of U.S. Law Enforcement Agencies (LEAs) Current
DoDI 3115.10E — Intelligence Support to Personnel Recovery Current
DoDI 3115.11 — DoD Intelligence Human Capital Management Operations Current
DoDI 3115.14 — Civil Aviation Intelligence Current
DoDI 3115.15 — Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT) 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 DoDI 3115.12 in an official product.