DODD 1000.25(D)

Abstract

<u>APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE</u> <br>This Directive applies to the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Uniformed Services, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commands; the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of Defense, the Defense Agencies, the DoD Field Activities; and all other organizational entities in the Department of Defense, (hereafter referred to collectively as the "DoD Components"). <br>This Directive also applies to the Commissioned Officers Corps of the U.S. Public Health Service under agreement with the Department of Health and Human Services; and the Commissioned Officers Corps of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration under agreement with the Department of Commerce. <br>This Directive does not apply to civilian employees of the Intelligence Community (e.g., National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and National Reconnaissance Office) unless their appropriate personnel data have been submitted and verified in DEERS. <br><u>PURPOSE</u> <br>This Directive: <br>Cancels references (a), (b), and (c), and establishes policy and assigns responsibility under the DoD Personnel Identity Protection (PIP) Program. The PIP shall be the Department of Defense's program for: addressing threats to the individual personal privacy of its Members, employees, and beneficiaries; establishing a secure and authoritative process for the issuance and use of identity credentials in the Department of Defense; and ensuring that DoD benefits and access to DoD physical and logical assets are granted based on authenticated and secure identity information. <br>Establishes policy for the implementation and operation of the PIP program to include use of authoritative identity information, issuance and use of DoD identity credentials, and operation of the Defense Enrollment and Eligibility Reporting System (DEERS), Real-time Automated Personnel Identification System (RAPIDS) and associated systems, Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS), Defense Cross-Credentialing Identification System (DCCIS), Defense National Visitors Center (DNVC), and the Defense Non-Combatant Evacuation (NEO) Operations Tracking System (DNTS).