Report
Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense
Jun 12, 2015
This report provides a closer look at the current state of the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) program as well as how new CUI rules might affect DoD acquisition data management. We found a high degree of overlap in the content of past and present CUI labels used for acquisition data, but the problem going forward is translating new policy into practice.
Considerations for Implementing the Controlled Unclassified Information Reform Program
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Acquisition data play a critical role in the management of the U.S. Department of Defense's (DoD's) portfolio of weapon systems. Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) labels are one of the key methods for protecting sensitive information from disclosure along with appropriate information security. Mandatory U.S. government–wide policies governing handling of unclassified acquisition information exist because of concerns about exploitation by sophisticated adversaries. Executive Order 13556, signed by then–President Barack Obama on November 4, 2010, established a government-wide program for managing CUI, which includes personally identifiable information, proprietary business information, and law enforcement investigation information, among others. As the CUI executive agent, the National Archives and Records Administration is responsible for addressing over 100 ways of characterizing CUI, which it has done in the September 2016 CUI Federal Register. The rules in this register came into effect on November 14, 2016. This report provides a closer look at the current state of the CUI program as well as how the new CUI rules might affect DoD acquisition data management. We found a high degree of overlap in the content, if not the nomenclature, of past and present CUI labels used for acquisition data, but the problem going forward is translating policy into practice.
Chapter One
Introduction
Chapter Two
Overview and Analysis of the Current CUI Reform Effort
Chapter Three
Overview of Aggregation of Acquisition Information
Chapter Four
Conclusions and Options
Appendix
Overview of NARA Categories of Importance to the DoD Acquisition Community
This research was sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense and conducted within the Acquisition and Technology Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute, a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, the Unified Combatant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies, and the defense Intelligence Community.
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