Accession Number:

AD1157002

Title:

Managing Sensitive Information: DOE and DOD Could Improve Their Policies and Oversight

Descriptive Note:

[Technical Report, Congressional Testimony]

Corporate Author:

United States Government Accountability Office

Personal Author(s):

• DAgostino, Davi M.
• Borseth, Ann
• Keefer, David
• Tarmann, Kevin
• Woodward, Ned

Report Date:

2006-03-14

Pagination or Media Count:

12

Abstract:

In the interest of national security and personal privacy and for other reasons, federal agencies place dissemination restrictions on information that is unclassified yet still sensitive. The Department of Energy DOE and the Department of Defense DOD have both issued policy guidance on how and when to protect sensitive information. DOE marks documents with this information as Official Use Only OUO while DOD uses the designation For Official Use Only FOUO. GAO was asked to 1 identify and assess the policies, procedures, and criteria DOE and DOD employ to manage OUO and FOUO information and 2 determine the extent to which DOEs and DODs training and oversight programs assure that information is identified, marked, and protected according to established criteria.

Descriptors:

Subject Categories:

• Information Science

Distribution Statement:

[A, Approved For Public Release]