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DoDM 5205.02 — DoD Operations Security (OPSEC) Program Manual

DoDM 5205.02 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 2008-11-03 — 17.8 years old — so check for newer interim changes before citing it.

Branch	Department of Defense
Series	DoDM
Publication date	2008-11-03 (17.8 years ago)
Status	Current
Proponent / OPR	USW(I&S)
Source of record	DoD Issuances

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If DoDM 5205.02 changes, who else is affected

Functional community	Publications	Which ones
Acquisition	1	DAFI 63-101 20-101
Operations	1	AFI 10-701

2 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 DoDM 5205.02

DAFI 20-101 63-101 — Integrated Life Cycle Management Current 2 mentions
DAFI 63-101 20-101 — Integrated Life Cycle Management Current 2 mentions
AFI 10-701 — Operations Security (Opsec) Current 1 mention
AFJQS 3CS — COUNTER-SMALL UNMANNED AIRCRAFT SYSTEM (C-sUAS) OPERATOR Current 1 mention
CFETP 1T0X1 — Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape (sere) Specialist Current 1 mention
CFETP 3F5X1 Not in the current catalog 1 mention

If DoDM 5205.02 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 DoDM series

DoDM 5200.02 — Procedures for the DoD Personnel Security Program (PSP) Current
DoDM 5200.08 Vol 3 — Physical Security Program: Access to DoD Installations Current
DoDM 5200.45 — Original Classification Authority and Writing a Security Classification Guide Current
DoDM 5205.07 — Special Access Program Security Manual Current
DoDM 5205.07 Volume 4 — Special Access Program (SAP) Security Manual: Marking 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 DoDM 5205.02 in an official product.