Defense and MIL-STD
Distribution Statement
Definition
What Distribution Statement Means
Every DoD technical document carries one of six statements. They are access control rather than classification: a document can be entirely unclassified and still be restricted to specific audiences.
They matter operationally because they govern what your delivery system must be able to prove. A platform that cannot scope access per person and evidence who received which revision cannot honor the marking, whatever the cover page says.
Also written: distribution statement A, distribution D, distribution statements
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Related Terms
The U.S. regulations controlling defense articles and the technical data about them, whose definition of technical data reads like a tech pubs library.
TDPThe complete technical description of an item sufficient to support procurement, production and sustainment, from drawings and models to specifications.
Data RightsWhat the government may do with technical data it receives, split into unlimited, government purpose, limited and restricted categories.
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