2.
APPLICABILITY AND SCOPE
2.1. Applies to the Office
of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), the Military Departments, the Chairman of
the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Combatant Commands, the Inspector General of
the Department of Defense (IG, DoD), the Defense Agencies, and the DoD Field
Activities (hereafter referred to collectively as "the DoD Components"),
their contractors, and agents.
2.2. Shall be used by
milestone decision authorities when acquiring IT.
2.3. Shall apply to the
acquisition, operation and sustainment of any DoD system that collects,
stores, transmits, or processes unclassified or classified information. It
applies to any IT or information system life cycle, including the
development of new IT systems, the incorporation of IT systems into an
infrastructure, the incorporation of IT systems outside the infrastructure,
the development of prototype IT systems, the reconfiguration or upgrade of
existing systems, and legacy
systems.
