Security Policy Board Goals and Accomplishments
SECURITY POLICY BOARD
Goals and Accomplishments
May 19, 1995ACCOMPLISHMENTS IN THE FIRST 180 DAYS
- Assembled staff of 16 from various Federal Departments and Agencies
- Coordinated selection of the non-DOD member to the SPB and nominees for the Security Advisory Board
- Reviewed all existing committees, working groups and other security policy fora as a first step toward determining those that should be continued, abolished or reorganized
- Published a staff proposal on reorganizing and streamlining the Government security policy structure
- 建立团队完成建立过渡ment of the future security policy committee structure
- Formulated a process for policy development that emphasizes consensus building yet is able to quickly obtain resolution of disputes
- Established permanent liaison with OSPB, NACIC, NACIPB
- Facilitated the final closure of the NISPOM
- Established a role for the SPB in the Executive Order on Classified National Security Information
- Developed and presented to the National Security Council a precedent setting executive order on Access to Classified Information
- Effected the elimination of NO CONTRACT and WNINTEL as dissemination control markings
- Developed new Federal framework for capturing and reporting security costs
Tally to date on the status of the recommendations of the Joint Security Commission:
--Total recommendations 76 --Total actions 114 --Total actions complete 18 --Total in progress 56 --Total temporarily deferred 40
SECURITY POLICY BOARD
PROPOSED PRIORITY ACTIONS FOR 1995
May 19, 1995
- Complete development of the SPB committee structure
- Develop a viable Risk Management framework
- Effect a substantial reduction in the number of dissemination control markings
- Foster and facilitate a national dialogue on information systems security vulnerabilities that encompasses both classified and sensitive but unclassified systems
- Improve efficiency and timeliness through:
- Establishment of a Federal Clearance Verification System
- Establishment of a common federal "smart" badge
- Establishment of automated security forms
- With 180 days of publication of the new executive order on Access, develop:
- Financial disclosure procedures and a form
- Foreign travel reporting requirements
- Common adjudicative guidelines
- Minimum standards for temporary access
- Common investigative standards
- Common reinvestigative standards, including frequency
- Revise the Safeguarding and Automated Information Systems Security chapters of the NISPOM
- Investigate further the utility of:
- Pursuing a fee-for-service for clearances
- Merging all DOD adjudicative entities and establishing a Joint Investigative Service
- A centralized polygraph program
- Integrate OPSEC into the security structure
- Implement, in coordination with OMB and ISOO, provisions of the new executive order on Classified National Security Information, to include:
- Develop a Presidential directive on safeguarding of classified information to address handling, storage, distribution, transmittal, destruction and accounting
- Participate in the OMB/ISOO led efforts to develop additional directives in the areas of classification and marking principles, security education and training programs, agency self-inspection programs and classification/ declassification guides
- Continue efforts on refining and implementing security cost estimating framework
- Complete action on all Joint Security Commission recommendations designated by the Security Policy Forum as warranting high priority
- Identify security training centers of excellence and facilitate community-wide access to training and awareness centers and products
- Further promote efficient and effective security training through:
- Insuring the integration of modern technology into training, education and awareness
- Consolidation of duplicative training where possible
- Fostering interdepartmental/ agency communications
- Promotion of centralized training and awareness resources
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