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DoDI 5400.16 — DoD Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) Guidance

DoDI 5400.16 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 2015-07-14 — 11.1 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.

Branch	Department of Defense
Series	DoDI
Publication date	2015-07-14 (11.1 years ago)
Status	Current
Proponent / OPR	DoW CIO
Source of record	DoD Issuances

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If DoDI 5400.16 changes, who else is affected

Functional community	Publications	Which ones
Communications & Records	5	AFI 33-332, AFI 33-332 ANDERSENAFB Sup, MCCONNELLAFBSUP 33-332, DAFPD 33-3, AFPD 33-3
Personnel	1	ANGI 36-2602

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Publications that cite DoDI 5400.16

AFI 33-332 — Air Force Privacy and Civil Liberties Program Current 28 mentions
AFI 33-332 ANDERSENAFB Sup — Air Force Privacy And Civil Liberties Program Current 7 mentions
MCCONNELLAFBSUP 33-332 — Air Force Privacy And Civil Liberties Program Current 7 mentions
DAFPD 33-3 — Information Access Programs Current 3 mentions
AFPD 33-3 — Information Management Not in the current catalog 2 mentions
ANGI 36-2602 — Personnel Retention Programs Current 1 mention
HAFMD 1-26 — Chief, Information Dominance and Chief Information Officer Current 1 mention

If DoDI 5400.16 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 5400.13 — Public Affairs (PA) Operations Current
DoDI 5400.14 — Procedures for Joint Public Affairs Operations Current
DoDI 5400.15 — Guidance on Obtaining Information from Financial Institutions Current
DoDI 5400.17 — Official Use of Social Media for Public Affairs Purposes Current
DoDI 5400.18 — Public Affairs Procedures And Operations For Political Campaigns And Elections 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 5400.16 in an official product.