[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 3 (Wednesday, January 5, 2000)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 419-421]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-235]
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Air Force
32 CFR Part 813
RIN 0701-AA-63
Visual Information Documentation Program
AGENCY: Department of the Air Force, DoD.
ACTION: Proposed rule.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Air Force is revising our rules on the
Visual Information Documentation Program of the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFRs) to reflect current policies. Part 813 (previously
Part 811a) implements Air Force Instruction (AFI) 33-117, Visual
Information Management, and applies to all Air Force activities.
DATES: Submit comments on or before March 6, 2000.
ADDRESSES: Mr. Raymond Dabney, HQ AFCIC/ITSM, 1250 Air Force Pentagon,
Washington, DC 20330-1250, 703-588-6136.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Raymond Dabney, HQ AFCIC/ITSM,
703-588-6136.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department of the Air Force is revising
Part 813, previously 32 CFR 811a, to reflect current policies. This
part implements AFI 33-117, Visual Information Management, and applies
to all Air Force activities.
List of Subjects in 32 CFR Part 813
Archives and records, Motion pictures.
For the reasons set forth in the preamble, the Department of the
Air Force is proposing to amend 32 CFR chapter VII by redesignating
part 811a as part 813 and revising it to read as follows:
PART 813--VISUAL INFORMATION DOCUMENTATION PROGRAM
Sec.
813.1 Purpose of the visual information documentation (VIDOC)
program.
813.2 Sources of VIDOC.
813.3 Responsibilities.
813.4 Combat camera operations.
813.5 Shipping or transmitting visual information documentation
images.
813.6 Planning and requesting combat documentation.
813.7 Readiness reporting.
Authority: 10 U.S.C. 8013
Sec. 813.1 Purpose of the visual information documentation (VIDOC)
program.
Using various visual and audio media, the Air Force VIDOC program
records important Air Force operations, historical events, and
activities for use as decision making and communicative tools. VIDOC of
Air Force combat operations is called COMCAM documentation.
Sec. 813.2 Sources of VIDOC.
(a) Primary sources of VIDOC materials include:
(1) HQ AMC active and reserve combat camera (COMCAM) forces, both
ground and aerial, whose primary goal is still and motion media
documentation of Air Force and air component combat and combat support
operations, and related peacetime activities such as humanitarian
actions, exercises, readiness tests, and operations.
(2) Visual information forces and combat documentation capabilities
from other commands: HQs ACC, AETC, AFRES, and AFSPACECOM.
(3) Communications squadron base visual information centers
(BVISCs).
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(4) Air Digital Recorder (ADR) images from airborne imagery
systems, such as heads up displays, radar scopes, and images from
electro-optical sensors carried aboard aircraft and weapons systems.
(5) Photography of Air Force Research, Development, Test &
Evaluation (RDT&E) activities, including high speed still and motion
media optical instrumentation.
(b) [Reserved]
Sec. 813.3 Responsibilities.
(a) HQ AFCIC/ITSM:
(1) Sets Air Force VIDOC policy.
(2) Oversees United States Air Force (USAF) COMCAM programs and
combat readiness.
(3) Makes sure Air Force participates in joint actions by
coordinating with the Office of the Secretary of Defense staff, Joint
Chiefs of Staff (JCS), executive departments, and other branches of the
United States Government.
(4) Approves use of Air Force COMCAM forces in non-Air Force
activities.
(b) Air components:
(1) Manage air component COMCAN and visual information support
within their areas of responsibility. Documents significant events and
operations for theater and national-level use.
(2) Sets requirements for COMCAM and VI support. Includes
requirements in operations plans (OPLAN) force lists, concept plans
(CONPLAN), operations orders (OPORD), and similar documents. See Air
Force Manual (AFMAN) 10-401, Operation Plan and Concept Plan
Development and Implementation.
(3) Coordinate with MAJCOM VI managers to plan and source VIDOC
forces for war, contingencies, and exercises.
(4) Provide input (VI and COMCAM requirements) to HQ AMC/SCMV, 203
West Losey Street, Room 3180, Scott AFB, IL 62225-5223, as required to
develop the annual VI Exercise Support Plan. Include requirements to
exercise VI forces to refine operational procedures and meet defined
objectives.
(c) HQ AMC:
(1) Provides primary Air Force ADR theater support to the air
component commanders.
(2) Maintains a deployable theater support Unified Transportation
Command (UTC) to manage ADR requirements above the aviation wing level.
This includes the gathering, editing, copying, and distribution of ADR
images from combat aviation squadrons for operational analysis, bomb
damage assessment, collateral intelligence, training, historical,
public affairs, and other needs.
(3) Sets combat training standards and develops programs for all
Air Force COMCAM personnel (includes both formal classroom and field
readiness training).
(4) Coordinates and meets COMCAM needs in war, operations, and
concept plans.
(5) Provides the Air Force's primary COMCAM capability and assists
air components and joint commands with deliberate and crisis action
planning for USAF's COMCAM assets.
(6) Provides component and theater commands COMCAM planning
assistance and expertise for contingencies, humanitarian actions,
exercises, and combat operations.
(7) Acts as manpower and equipment force packaging (MEFPAK) manager
for COMCAM UTCs.
(8) Funds HQ AMC COMCAM personnel and equipment for contingency or
wartime deployments. (The requester funds temporary duty and supply
costs for planned events, such as non-JCS exercises and competitions.)
(9) Develops and monitors the annual Air Force-wide VI Exercise
Support Plan for the Air Staff, with assistance from air components and
supporting MAJCOMs. (Use criteria contained in Sec. 813.4(e)(1) and
provide equitable deployment opportunity for tasked commands' VI
resources.)
(d) MAJCOM VI managers:
(1) Plan and set policy for documenting activities of operational,
historical, public affairs, or other significance within their
commands.
(2) Train and equip VIDOC forces to document war, contingencies,
major events, Air Force and joint exercises, and weapons test.
(3) Make sure COMCAM and BVISC forces meet their wartime tasking
and identify and resolve deficiencies. Refer significant deficiencies
and problems and proposed resolution to HQ AFCIC/ITISM.
(4) Allow documentation of significant Air Force activities and
events, regardless of their sensitivity or classification. Protect
materials as the supported command directs. Safeguard classified images
or handle them according to Department of Defense (DoD) Directive
5200.1, DoD Information Security Program, June 7, 1982, with Changes 1
and 2, and AFI 31-401, Information Security Program Management. The
authority in charge of the event or operation approves documentation
distribution.
(5) Update UTC availability in MAJCOM information systems.
(6) Assist Air Force Operations Group, in identifying the command's
capability to support COMCAM and VI requirements.
(7) Provide inputs to HQ AMC/SCMV for the annual VI Executive
Support Plan for JCS exercises.
(8) Make sure units that have deployable VI teams have Status of
Resources and Training System (SORTS) reportable designed operational
capability (DOC) statements that accurately reflect their mission and
taskings.
(9) Develop and oversee measurements, such as operational readiness
inspection criteria, to evaluate VI force readiness at DOC-tasked
units.
Sec. 813.4 Combat camera operations.
(a) Air Force COMCAM forces document Air Force and air component
activities.
(b) The supported unified command or joint task force commander,
through the air component commander (when assigned), controls Air Force
COMCAM forces in a joint environment. If an air component is assigned,
the air component normally manages documentation of its operations. Air
Force COMCAM and visual information support for joint operations will
be proportionate to USAF combat force participation. In airlift
operations, HQ AMC may be the supported command.
(c) During contingencies, exercises, and other operations, the Air
Force provides its share of Unified Command headquarters COMCAM and
visual information support forces for still photographic, motion media,
graphics, and other VI services.
(d) COMCAM and VI forces take part in Air Force and joint exercises
to test procedures and over-all readiness. COMCAM and VI forces also
provide VI products to command, operations, public affairs, historical,
and other significant customers.
(e) Sourcing COMCAM forces. See AFMAN 10-401 for specific
procedures.
(1) When VI support teams are required, the lead wing's VI UTC
deploys as primary, whenever possible. If lead wing VI support is not
available, the providing command sources the requirement from other
active or reserve component forces, or coordinates with other MAJCOMs
for assistance.
(2) Air Force VI personnel who assist supported commands in
determining COMCAM and VI requirements and sourcing consider the total
USAF VI community as a resource. Planners consider employing USAF
deployable VI support teams, augmentation combat documentation teams
from AFSPACECOM, AETC, and ACC, as well as active and reserve COMCAM
teams.
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Sec. 813.5 Shipping or transmitting visual information documentation
images.
(a) COMCAM images. Send COMCAM images to the DoD Joint Combat
Camera Center, Room 5A518, Pentagon, Washington, DC 20330-3000, by the
fastest means possible, following the approval procedures that on-scene
and theater commanders set.
(b) Other non-COMCAM images. After use, send significant non-COMCAM
images to the appropriate DoD media records center through the Air
Force record center accessioning point.
(c) Identification of VIDOC materials. Clearly identify all VIDOC
and COMCAM material with slates, captions, and cover stories.
Sec. 813.6 Planning and requesting combat documentation.
(a) Planned combat documentation. Air components identify
documentation needs as early as possible in OPLANs, CONPLANs, and
OPORDs and sent copies of these plans to HQ AMC/SCMV, 203 West Losey
Street, Room 3180, Scott AFB, IL 62225-5223. Include the contact for
planning and support.
(b) MAJCOMS may request that HQ AMC document their activities. Send
information copies of requests to HQ AFCIC/ITSM, 1250 Air Force
Pentagon, Washington, DC 20330-1250, and HQ AMC/SCMV. When a supporting
component command operationally controls HQ AMC COMCAM units, other
organizations that need support must coordinate requests with the
supported command.
(c) Unplanned combat documentation. Send short notice requests to
the supported operational commander as soon as possible, with
information copies to HQ AFCIC/ITSM and HQ AMC/SCMO. Identify end
product requirements, media formats, and deadlines.
(d) Humanitarian, disaster relief, and contingencies. Theater
commanders normally task the supporting component through the Joint
Operation Planning and Execution System, that in turn, requests support
from HQ AMC. HQ USAF can directly task HQ AMC to document humanitarian,
disaster relief, or contingency activities if it does not receive other
tasking(s). In these cases, coordinate with the supported unified
command.
Sec. 813.7 Readiness reporting.
All Air Force units assigned a DOC statement report readiness
status through the SORTS process. See AFI 10-201, Status of Resources
and Training System, for specific information and reporting criteria.
Janet A. Long,
Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 00-235 Filed 1-4-00; 8:45 am]
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