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Accession Number:

AD1157002

Title:

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

Author(s):

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

Author Organization(s):

• United States Government Accountability Office

Report Date:

2006-03-14

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 DOE's and DOD's training and oversight programs assure that information is identified, marked, and protected according to established criteria.

Document Type:

Conference:

Journal:

Pages:

12

File Size:

0.18MB

Contracts:

Grants:

Descriptors:

Identifiers:

• Confidential communications
• Confidential information
• Employee training
• Evaluation criteria
• Information access
• Information management
• Internal controls
• Policy evaluation
• Program evaluation
• Policies and procedures
• Transparency
• department of energy
• unclassified
• sensitive

SubjectCategory:

• Behavioral and Social Sciences

Communities of Interest:

• Biomedical

Distribution Statement:

Approved For Public Release

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