Transcript Pannoni_2005_11_08

Overview & Perspectives on
National Security
Information Policy
Requirements
Greg Pannoni
Associate Director, ISOO
Collaborative Expedition Workshop #45
Advancing information sharing, access, discovery and assimilation of diverse
digital collections responsive to heterogenious sensitivities
What is ISOO?
• Oversight and Reporting Entity for
the Security Classification System
and the National Industrial Security
Program
• Created in 1978
• Director Appointed by the Archivist
of the United States with the
approval of the President
AUTHORITIES
• Executive Order 12958, as amended
"Classified National Security Information"
– Oversee the government-wide security
classification program.
– Formulate, coordinate and recommend
information security policy changes
• Executive Order 12829, "National
Industrial Security Program."
– Monitors the National Industrial Security
Program or "NISP."
FUNCTIONS
• Implementing Directives/Regulations
• Liaison, Reviews and General Oversight
• Complaints, Appeals and Suggestions
• Statistical Collection, Analysis and Reporting
• Executive Secretary & Staff to the ISCAP
OTHER FUNCTIONS
• Establish standards for:
– Classification and marking principles
– Agency security education and training
programs
– Agency self-inspection programs
– Classification and declassification guides
• Review requests for original classification
authority
Post-9/11 World
• Nation & Government Profoundly Different
– Citizens’ sense of vulnerability
– Expectations of Federal government
– Nation states vs. non-government threats
• Role of Information
– Adversaries use to harm us
– Essential to effective homeland security
• Twin Imperative
– Information sharing
– Information protection
Today’s Unique Opportunity
Seamless and Congruous Framework
-vicePatchwork Quilt of Bureaucratic
Fiefdoms
Advances in Classification System
• Sec. 4.2 (b), E.O. 12958, as amended
In an emergency, when necessary to respond to
an imminent threat to life or in defense of the
homeland, the agency head or any designee
may authorize the disclosure of classified
information to an individual or individuals who
are otherwise not eligible for access.
• E.O. 13311 – Assigned responsibilities for
fulfilling “Homeland Security Information Sharing
Act”
– Sharing of classified information with State and local
officials
Challenges to the System
• Overclassification
• Declassification
• Information Sharing
– Incentives, Write-to-release, Use of tear line,
– Trust among agencies, Common standards,
• Policy, Technology & Culture
– Document-centric vs. database-centric,
– Risk avoidance vs. Risk acceptance
– Consistency, Highly structured vs.
unstructured (dynamic)
Challenges to the System
• Reengineer framework to be more
consistent w/electronic environment
• Greater congruity between classification
regimes
• Revisit “Third-Agency Rule”
• Reconsider “Need-to-Know”
• Right information, right time, right people
• Performance measures & enforcement
Contact ISOO
WEB --- Public
www.archives.gov/isoo/
WEB --- Private
www.nara-atwork.gov/nara_organizations/isoo/in
dex.html
[email protected] 202-2195250 ext. 229