title: United States Army Publishing Directorate
text: # United States Army Publishing Directorate
  
  The Army Publishing Directorate (APD) is the United States Army's centralized publications and forms management organization.
  
  ## Office symbol
  
  In accordance with Army Regulation (AR) 25–59, ADP's office symbol is SAAA-APD.
  
  ## Mission
  
  The Army Publishing Directorate (APD) supports readiness as the Army's centralized publications and forms management organization. APD authenticates, publishes, indexes, and manages Department of the Army publications and forms to ensure that Army policy is current and can be developed or revised quickly. APD also provides content management services, as well as illustrative and design services from in-house visual information specialists who design publication figure illustrations and manage custom 4 color print projects in support of both HQDA and Army-affiliated clientele .
  
  