Security Policy Board Goals and Accomplishments

SECURITY POLICY BOARD

ACCOMPLISHMENTS 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
• Established transition teams to finalize establishment 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

--Total recommendations				76

--Total actions					114

--Total actions complete			18

--Total in progress				56

--Total temporarily deferred			40

• 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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