The COVID Project
The record
- Jurisdiction
- Department of Defense (all uniformed and civilian personnel and family members)
- Level
- Federal
- Authority
- 10 U.S.C. 113
- Issued
- 2020-03-11 Mar. 11, 2020
- Effective
- 2020-03-13
- End
- 60 days (May 11, 2020); cancelled and reissued Apr. 20, 2020 (Ex. 043) (read as 2020-05-11)
- In force
- Mar. 13, 2020 to May 11, 2020
- Quarters
- 2020 Q2
2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3
- Limitation types
- Travel and quarantineWorkplace rules
- Addressees
- all DoD uniformed personnel, civilian personnel and family members
- DoD Components (hiring actions)
- Functions reached
- TR business travel of DoD customers to vendor sites, trade shows and conferences
- MK
- CB airlines, hotels and conference venues serving DoD travel
- WF PCS moves and hiring outside the commuting area deferred
- Collection
- Defense installations and the National Guard AGY-DEFENSE-GUARD
Operative words
Effective March 13, 2020, all DoD uniformed personnel, civilian personnel and family members traveling to, from, or through Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Travel Health Notices Level 3 (COVID-19) designated locations, will stop movement for the next 60 days. This includes all forms of official travel, including Permanent Change of Station, Temporary Duty, and government-funded leave.... Also effective March 13, 2020, DoD Components must determine whether official travel by DoD personnel to locations other than CDC Travel Health Notices Level 3 designated locations is mission essential and must defer non-mission essential travel.
Enforcement
Order of the Secretary; exceptions in writing for mission-essential, humanitarian or extreme hardship travel
Notes
Also deferred DoD civilian hiring actions for positions in Level 3 locations until restrictions lifted.