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• Air Force Instruction 16-702-Special Access Programs Appeals Board
• Annotated NISPOM
• Appendix III to OMB Circular No. A-130, Security of Federal Automated Information Resources
• Army Directive 2006-01, Oversight of Sensitive Activities
• Army Regulation 25-2, Information Assurance
• Army Regulation 380-381, Special Access Program and Sensitive Activities
• CJCS Instruction 3170.01, Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System, dated 1 May 2007
• Computer Security Act of 1987, Computer Security Act of 1987
• Defense Acquisition Guide
• Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement; Oral Attestation of Security Responsibilities
• Department of the Army Administrative Publications
• DoD 5105.21-M-1 DoD Sensitive Compartmented Information Administrative Security Manual
• DoD 5200.08-R, Physical Security Program
• DoD 5200.1-H, Department of Defense Handbook for Writing Security Classification Guidance
• DoD 5200.1-M, Acquisition Systems Protection Program
• DoDM 5200.01, Vol. 1, DoD Information Security Program: Overview, Classification, and Declassification, February 24, 2012
• DoDM 5200.01, Vol. 2, DoD Information Security Program: Marking of Classified Information, February 24, 2012
• DoDM 5200.01, Vol. 3, DoD Information Security Program: Protection of Classified Information, February 24, 2012
• DoDM 5200.01, Vol. 4, DoD Information Security Program: Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI), February 24, 2012
• DoD 5200.2-R, Personnel Security Program
• DoD 5200.33-R, Defense Courier Service Regulation
• DoD 5205.02-M, DoD Manual, DoD Operations Security (OPSEC) Program Manual
• DoD 5220.22-M, National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM)
• DoD 5220.22-M, Supplement 1, National Industrial Security Program Operating Manual Supplement
• DoD 5400.7-R, DoD Freedom of Information Act
• DoD 8570.01-M, Information Assurance Workforce Improvement Program
• DoD Directive 2060.1, Implementation of, and Compliance with, Arms Control Agreements
• DoD Directive 5000.01, The Defense Acquisition System
• DoD Directive 5105.42, Defense Security Service
• DoD Directive 5200.2, DoD Personnel Security Program
• DoD Directive 5200.39, Security, Intelligence, and Counterintelligence Support to Acquisition Program Protection
• DoD Directive 5205.02, DoD Operations Security (OPSEC) Program
• DoD Directive 5205.07, DoD Special Access Program Policy
• DoD Directive 5210.2, Access and Dissemination of Restricted Data
• DoD Directive 5530.3, International Agreements
• DoD Directive 8500.01E, Information Assurance
• DoD Directive 8521.01E, Department of Defense Biometrics
• DoD Directive 8570.01, Information Assurance Training Certification and Workforce Management
• DoD Instruction 5200.01, DoD Information Security Program and Protection of Sensitive Compartmented Information
• DoD Instruction 5200.08, Security of Installations and Resources
• DoD Instruction 5240.05, Technical Surveillance Countermeasures (TSCM) Program
• DoD Instruction 8500.2, Information Assurance (IA) Implementation
• DoD Instruction 8510.1, DoD Information Assurance Certification and Accreditation Process (DIACAP)
• DoD Instruction 8560.01, Communications Security (COMSEC) Monitoring and Information Assurance (IA) Readiness Testing
• DoD Manual 8910.1-M, Department of Defense Procedures for Management of Information Requirements
• Executive Order 12333, United States Intelligence Activities, Further Amendments (July 30, 2008)
• Executive Order 12829 – National Industrial Security Program
• Executive Order 12968, Access to Classified National Security Information
• Executive Order 12972, Amendment to Executive Order 12958, Classified National Security Information
• Executive Order 13526, Classified National Security Information, dated 05 Jan 2010
• Government Accountability Office (GAO) Report on Security Clearances, DoD Personnel Clearances: Some Progress Has Been Made but Hurdles Remain, GAO-05-842T, dated 28 June 2005
• Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 - Implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive (HSPD) 12 Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors, dated 5 August 2005
• ICD 705 Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (Effective: 26 May 2010)
• ICS 705-1 Physical and Technical Security Standards for Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities (Effective: 17 September 2010)
• Industrial Security Letters
• Information Security Oversight Office Marking Pamphlet, Information Security Oversight Office, Marking Classified National Security Information Pamphlet, dated December 2010
• Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) 704, Personnel Security
• Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.1, Personnel Security Investigative Standards and Procedures Governing Eligibility for Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and Other Controlled Access Program Information
• Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.2, Personnel Adjudicative Guidelines for Determining Eligibility for Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information and Other Controlled Access Program Information
• Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.3, Denial or Revocation of Access to Sensitive Compartmented Information, Other Controlled Access Program Information, and Appeals Processes
• Intelligence Community Policy Guidance (ICPG) 704.4, Reciprocity of Personnel Security Clearance and Access Determinations
• National Security Decision Directive Number 298, National Operations Security Program, dated 22 January 1988
• NISPOM Index
• NSA Media Destruction Guidance
• NSA/CSS EPL 02-02-K, NSA/CSS Evaluated Products List for High Security Disintegrators, dated 31 July 2008
• NSA/CSS EPL-04-01-C, NSA Evaluated Product List for Punched Tape Destruction Devices, dated 29 July 2005
• NSA/CSS EPL-04-02-G, NSA Evaluated Product List for Optical Media Destruction Devices, dated 31 May 2008
• NSA/CSS EPL-9-12A-D, Degausser Evaluated Products List, dated 4 December 2007
• NSA/CSS Evaluated Products List for High Security Crosscut Paper Shredders
• Office of Management and Budget Memo - Reciprocal Recognition of Existing Personnel Security Clearances, Reciprocal Recognition of Existing Personnel Security Clearances, dated 17 July 2006
• Office of the President, Stephen J. Hadley Memorandum Personnel Security Adjudicative Guidelines
• Presidential Memo - Reciprocal Recognition of Existing Personnel Security Clearances, dated 12 December 2005
• NSA Policy Manual 9-12, NSA/CSS Storage Device Declassification Manual, dated December 2007
• Technical Specifications for Construction and Management of Sensitive Compartmented Information Facilities, Version 1.1, IC Tech Spec-for ICD/ICS 705 (dated 31 October 2011)
• The Privacy Act of 1974, 5 U.S.C. & 552a, As Amended
• Title 10, Section 119, Special Access Programs, Congressional Oversight
• USD (I) Memo - Declassification Marking Guidance for DoD Special Access Program (SAP) Classified Material, dated 26 April 2007
• USD (I) Memo - NOFORN Caveat on DoD Information, dated 17 May 2005