STINFO RESOURCES @ AFIT: Home

• Awareness: It informs AFIT (Air Force Institute of Technology) faculty, students, and staff about STINFO (Scientific and Technical Information) policies and procedures, ensuring they understand the framework governing the handling of technical information.
• Accessibility: It aims to make STINFO guidance and information readily available and easy to find, acting as a centralized resource for AFIT members.
• Education: It fosters comprehension of STINFO requirements and responsibilities, helping AFIT members recognize their roles within the program.
• Briefing: It provides an overview of STINFO methods, likely explaining how technical information is managed, shared, or restricted.
• Training: It offers practical instruction on selecting and constructing complete distribution statements, which are critical for marking technical documents (e.g., theses, dissertations) to indicate their releasability.
• Promotion: It encourages a broader understanding and appreciation of the STINFO program, emphasizing its importance within AFIT and the U.S. Air Force.

On January 10, 2023, the DoD issued an updated Instruction for DISTRIBUTION STATEMENTS ON DOD TECHNICAL INFORMATION.

You may read the Instruction or a summary located at the tab reading January 10, 2023 Update on this very page or by clicking here.

MOST IMPORTANTLY: The form and content of the markings for Distro A, B, C, D, E, or F have not been changed.

If your thesis/dissertation is CLASSIFIED, you still must add the appropriate Distribution Statement.

​See: Enclosure 3, Procedure 6, page 11 of DoDI 5230.24

As of April 28, 2016 there are new policies in place for the use of Distribution F. DoD Instruction 5230.24, "Distribution Statements on Technical Documents" now prohibits the use of Distribution F on classified or unclassified scientific and technical documents. However, distribution statement F may be used under rare and exceptional circumstances when specific authority exists, or when need-to-know has been verified.

See PDF for more information: http://www.dtic.mil/dtic/pdf/newswire_distribution_f.pdf

Contact Wheeler Hall by clicking the email button to your right for access to the slide show.

Navigating the tabs directly above this box will give you access to local STINFO policy and procedures. Being a local resource, STINFO guidance and information posted here is intended for the sole benefit of AFIT faculty, students, and staff. AFIT member questions regarding STINFO requirements, responsibilities, or training requests should be emailed to Wheeler Hall, reference librarian and STINFO liaison for AFIT at the link to the right.

CAVEAT: This guide is intended solely for the use of AFIT and its members. If the reader of this guide is not a faculty, student, or staff member of AFIT, you are hereby notified that any reading, dissemination, distribution, copying, or other use of this guide or its attachments does not ensure compliance with your specific STINFO office's procedures. If you have received access to this guide or its contents in error, please notify the sender immediately.

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