Pentagon Prepping For New Rules

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February 4, 2008 By Shaun Waterman, United Press International
WASHINGTON -- The Pentagon is readying itself for the massive task of shifting to a new, single category of "Controlled Unclassified Information."
The Defense Department, like all other U.S. agencies, currently administers a confusing, overlapping and sometimes contradictory set of definitions of such material, variously labeled with one of a dozen different terms from "law enforcement sensitive" or "for official use only" to "sensitive but unclassified."
But all of that is set to change, according to Pentagon documents. In a broadly circulated memo at the end of last year, Defense Department Deputy Chief Information Officer David Wennergren said he expected a new policy to be approved "shortly."
"The new policy will replace all of the marking currently used for (Controlled Unclassified Information or CUI) within (the Department of Defense) with new standardized marking," reads the memo.
Wennergren announced the formation of a department-wide task force "to oversee the development of a DoD transition plan and identify associated infrastructure costs for inclusion" in future budget requests starting Financial Year 2010.
Pentagon spokesman Maj. Patrick Ryder told United Press International the task force had been established as a "pro-active measure," because implementing the shift to a single category "would be a significant undertaking for the department."
"Since this is a work in progress and many of the details are still being researched, we are not able to provide any more specifics at this time," he said in a statement.
 
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