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

GAO-06-531T Published: Mar 14, 2006. Publicly Released: Mar 14, 2006.
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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.

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Confidential communicationsConfidential informationEmployee trainingEvaluation criteriaInformation accessInformation managementInternal controlsPolicy evaluationProgram evaluationPolicies and proceduresTransparency