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DoDI 5200.46 — DoD Investigative and Adjudicative Guidance for Issuing the Common Access Card (CAC)

DoDI 5200.46 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 2014-09-09 — 12.0 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.

Branch	Department of Defense
Series	DoDI
Publication date	2014-09-09 (12.0 years ago)
Status	Current
Proponent / OPR	USW(I&S)
Source of record	DoD Issuances

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If DoDI 5200.46 changes, who else is affected

Functional community	Publications	Which ones
Cyberspace	1	DAFMAN 17-1304
Personnel	1	DAFMAN 36-3026
Security Forces	1	DAFI 31-117

3 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 DoDI 5200.46

DAFGM 2022-36-02 — Suitability/Fitness Adjudication for Civilian Employees Not in the current catalog 2 mentions
DAFGM 2025-36-01 — Suitability/Fitness Adjudication for Civilian Employees Not in the current catalog 2 mentions
DAFI 31-117 — Arming And Use Of Force Current 2 mentions
DAFMAN 17-1304 — Iidentity, Credential and Access Management (icam) Current 2 mentions
DAFMAN 36-3026 — Air Force Trusted Associate Sponsorship System Current 2 mentions

If DoDI 5200.46 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 5200.33 — Defense Courier Operations (DCO) Current
DoDI 5200.39 — Critical Program Information (CPI) Identification and Protection Within Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation (RDT&E) Current
DoDI 5200.44 — Protection of Mission Critical Functions to Achieve Trusted Systems and Networks Current
DoDI 5200.48 — Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) Current
DoDI 5200.49 — Oversight of the Collection and Exchange of Information Using the Government-Industry Data Exchange Program 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 5200.46 in an official product.