Purpose

This regulation establishes the Army Protection Program (APP) to better manage risks relative to the safety and security of our Soldiers, civilians, family members, contractors, facilities, infrastructure, and information. The APP is the overarching management program for synchronizing, integrating, coordinating, and prioritizing policies, decisions, and resources of the 12 non-warfighting APP functional elements and the three APP enabling functions as identified in paragraph 3–1. This regulation prescribes policies, roles, responsibilities, and relationships across the APP functional elements and their associated enabling functions. The APP applies risk management processes to integrate and coordinate protection programs into Army operations, expand program oversight, ensure senior leader accountability, and better facilitate informed decisionmaking and resource allocation in an all threats and hazards environment.

Applicability. This regulation applies to the Act ive Army, the Army National Guard/Army National Guard of the United States, and the U.S. Army Reserve.