Fixing Leaks: Assessing the Department of Defense's Approach to Preventing and Deterring Unauthorized Disclosures
Abstract
In 2012, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSD(I)) established the Unauthorized Disclosures Program Implementation Team (UD PIT) whose mission is to prevent and deter the unauthorized disclosures of classified information by all Department of Defense (DoD) personnel through the implementation of the UD Strategic Plan. OUSD(I) asked RAND to help monitor and assess the potential for effectiveness of this new DoD initiative to stem unauthorized disclosures of classified information, and make recommendations as needed. This report provides some overall observations of the RAND project team concerning the activities of the UD PIT for the period from mid-September 2012 through January 2013; then, building off those observations, the report recommends possible enhancements in the mechanisms and procedures that the UD PIT uses to accomplish its principal goals. While the study focus is limited to DoD, the recommendations may be of broader interest to the Intelligence Community (IC), since the DoD intelligence agencies and components belong to the IC and the scope of these issues is broader than DoD alone, and thus perhaps applicable to non-DoD IC elements.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2013
- Accession Number
- ADA586431
Entities
People
- James B. Bruce
- W. G. Jameson
Organizations
- RAND Corporation