DODI 5040.02, VISUAL INFORMATION (VI)

FOIA REQUESTS

WITHIN 20 WORKING DAYS

FOIA APPEALS

WITHIN 60 DAYS

DMA Director

Provide a primary and alternate COMCAM representative to the National Military Command Center (NMCC), the Executive Support Center, and the Global Situational Awareness Facility when necessary to facilitate COMCAM integration into operations

DMA Director

Provide assistance to the CJCS for planning and coordinating COMCAM and VI documentation (VIDOC) deployment, and identifying VI and COMCAM objectives

DMA Director

Provide technical training for VI and COMCAM personnel

9 FOIA EXEMPTIONS

*Classified national defense and foreign relations information. *Internal agency rules and practices. Information that is prohibited from disclosure by another federal law. *Trade secrets and other confidential business information. *Inter-agency or intra-agency communications that are protected by legal privileges. *Information involving matters of personal privacy (protected under the Privacy Act or containing sensitive personally identifiable information). *Information compiled for law enforcement purposes, to the extent that the production of those records: *Could reasonably be expected to interfere with enforcement proceedings. *Would deprive a person of a right to a fair trial or an impartial adjudication. *Could reasonably be expected to constitute an unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. *Could reasonably be expected to disclose the identity of a confidential source. *Would disclose techniques and procedures for law enforcement, investigations or prosecutions, or would disclose guidelines for law enforcement investigations or prosecutions. *Could reasonably be expected to endanger the life or physical safety of any individual. *Information relating to the supervision of financial institutions. *Geological information on wells.

Budget Submitting Office VI Management Office (BSOVIMO)

A staff office at the budget management level, which prescribes and requires compliance with VI policies and procedures and reviews operations.

ASSISTANT SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR PUBLIC AFFAIRS

ASD(PA)

COMCAM

COMCAM forces shall provide the OSD, the CJCS, the Military Departments, the Combatant Commands, and JTFs with a directed imagery capability in support of strategic, operational, and planning requirements during wartime operations, worldwide crises, contingencies, joint exercises, and humanitarian operations. The COMCAM mission can support, but is independent from, unique imagery operations and systems designed to meet specific VI mission requirements, such as intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR), operational test and evaluation, and certain DoD functions

DVISC Commitee

Discusses, explores, develops, proposes, advises, assists, and provides recommendations to the ASD(PA) on matters pertaining to DoD VI planning, policy, procedures, direction, management, standards, and other related issues. DMA Director chairs.

DIMOC

DIMOC - Defense Imagery Management Operations Center

DIRECTOR, DEFENSE MEDIA ACTIVITY

DMA

DVIAN

Defense Visual Infor.mation Activity Number (DVIAN). A unique identifier assigned to each authorized DoD VI activity.

DMA Director

Develop and oversee the implementation and effectiveness of VI policies and procedures for the DoD VI program, including the Joint COMCAM Program, life-cycle management of DoD VI productions, products, records, VI activity management and concepts of operation for employing VI capabilities

DMA Director

Distribute information to assist those who plan for and those who use VI and COMCAM imagery, including official Government customers, non-Federal agencies, commercial organizations, retired military personnel, and the general public

DMA Director

Establish and coordinate communication requirements with the Combatant Commands to transmit VI and COMCAM imagery to the DIMOC

DMA Director

Establish, operate, and maintain DoD information systems to support the DoD VI mission across all DoD Components.

DMA Director

Establish, operate, and maintain the DIMOC for DoD level coordination, collection, management, storage, and distribution of strategic, operational, tactical, and joint-interest VI with the operational functions to

Vision ID

FC670

NMCC

National Military Command Center

VIRIN

Official DoD imagery, other than DoD productions assigned a Production Identification Number in accordance with Reference (f), shall be assigned a VIRIN to enable the management of the imagery as a shared strategic asset, facilitate retrieval, repurposing, and provide an enterprise record identification system

DMA Director

Operate DoD imagery systems providing uplink, transmission, reception, distribution, and usage tracking in support of the DoD, other Government agencies (OGA), and allied and coalition partners

DMA Director

Operate the central DoD distribution point for VI end products

SECRETARIES OF THE MILITARY DEPARTMENTS

Organize, train, and equip COMCAM personnel and units to provide highly responsive imagery acquisition, processing, and transmission capabilities in support of operational and planning requirements during wartime operations, worldwide crises, contingencies, and joint exercises. COMCAM resources shall be sufficient to support the Joint Strategic Capabilities Plan force structure

COMBATANT COMMANDERS

Plan for, task, deploy, and employ COMCAM forces and VIDOC teams during wartime operations, worldwide crises, contingencies, joint exercises, and other events involving the DoD Components having significant national interest.

DMA Director

The Director, DMA, under the authority, direction, and control of the ASD(PA)

DIMOC

The DoD's central VI records center. It receives, stores, preserves, provides reference service on, and disposes of VI records. It is responsible for receiving, documenting, replicating, controlling quality, controlling inventory and life cycle managing defense inventory productions and other VI end products

FOIA INFO

The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) is a federal law that generally provides that any person has a right, enforceable in court, to obtain access to federal agency records. All federal agencies, including EPA, are required to make requested records available unless the records are protected from disclosure by one of nine FOIA exemptions contained in the statute. (APPLIES ONLY TO FEDERAL AGENCIES)

VIRIN

The VIRIN shall consist of 15 data elements, in four fields, separated by three hyphens, for a total of 18 characters, organized in the alpha (A) numeric (N) format NNNNNN-A-AANNN- NNN.

VIRIN 1st part

The year (Y), month (M), and day (D) of acquisition or origin, arranged as YYMMDD. Example: March 23, 2009 = 090323

VIRIN

VI RECORD IDENTIFICATION NUMBER (VIRIN)

OFFICIAL COMMAND SOCIAL MEDIA PRESENCE REQUIREMENTS

• Have the commanding officer or public affairs officer approval • Have a valid .mil email address • Link to an official DON website URL • Include Include endorsement disclaimer text • If the site allows comments, include a user agreement establishing criteria for posts • Clearly identify the site as "official" • Be unlocked and open to the public • Be labeled as "organization-government page" on Facebook