DOD INSTRUCTION 4650.06
P
OSITIONING, NAVIGATION, AND TIMING (PNT) MANAGEMENT
Originating Component: Office of the Department of Defense Chief Information Officer
Effective: June 16, 2016
Releasability: Cleared for public release. Available on the DoD Issuances Website at
http://www.dtic.mil/whs/directives.
Reissues and Cancels: DoD Instruction 4650.06 “DoD Positioning, Navigation, and Timing
(PNT) Executive Committee and Working Groups,” November 24, 2009
Incorporates and Cancels: DoD Instruction, 4650.07, “Precise Time and Time Interval (PTTI)
Management,” November 23, 2011; DoD Instruction 4650.9, “Celestial
Reference Frame (CRF) Management,” April 15, 2015
Approved by: Terry Halvorsen, Department of Defense Chief Information Officer
Purpose: This issuance, in accordance with the authority in DoD Directives (DoDD) 5144.02 and
4650.05:
• Implements policy, assigns responsibilities, and prescribes procedures for PNT, precise time and
time interval (PTTI), and celestial reference frame (CRF) management, in accordance with the guidance
in the National Security Presidential Directive 39 (NSPD-39) and Section 2281 of Title 10, United
States Code.
• Establishes policy and assigns responsibilities of DoD participants in domestic civil forums,
international government, and civil PNT forums.
• Establishes the DoD PNT Executive Management Board (EMB) to oversee the governance process
in support of the Council for the Oversight of the DoD PNT Enterprise (referred to in this issuance as
the “PNT Oversight Council”).
• Assigns responsibilities and prescribes procedures for the EMB, DoD PNT Working Group (WG),
and DoD Navigation Warfare (Navwar), DoD PTTI, and DoD CRF WGs.
