Civilian employees of the Defense Department are again being ordered to document their work – this time, with the backing of the Pentagon.

The order from Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth will be sent March 3 to the more than 700,000 civilian Defense workers, according to a Pentagon news release. The civilian workers will be told to “prepare five bullet points detailing their work accomplishments from the prior week.”

The order potentially affects thousands in Huntsville, where Redstone Arsenal, a major regional employer, houses numerous Defense Department tenant agencies.

The responses, Hegseth said Monday in a video statement, will be consolidated internally within the department to satisfy directives from the Office of Personnel Management.

OPM requested the same information from hundreds of thousands of federal workers Fed. 23, but the Defense Department at that time told employees to pause replies to the request. The new guidance says employees should start writing their submissions.

“The Department of Defense initially paused this directive … but now requires all DOD civilian employees to submit five bullets on their previous week’s achievements,” Hegseth said.

Civilian employees should reply to the email they will receive Monday, according to the Pentagon, and responses should not include classified or sensitive information. Responses should be submitted within 48 hours.

Civilian employees who will not have email access in the 48 hours following delivery of the email due to being on leave, shift work or other reasons, are to complete the request within 48 hours of regaining access.

“Our civilian patriots who dedicate themselves to defending this nation working for the Department of Defense are critical to our national security,” Hegseth said. “As we work to restore focus on DOD’s core warfighting mission under President Trump’s leadership, we recognize that we cannot accomplish that mission without the strong and important contributions of our civilian workforce.”