Visual Information Documentation Program

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.

pose 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).

(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.

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.

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.)

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.

roup, 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.

hare 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.

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.

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.

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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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