Intelligence agencies need to apply more management attention to a 2010 law and an Obama administration initiative to reduce over-classification of government information, according to a report from the intelligence community IG.
The report examined progress reviews from five intelligence agency agencies and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. It identified three areas requiring emphasis in general: training, program management and oversight.
It said, for example, that two of the IG reports noted that less than half of their agency’s employees were receiving the required biennial training requirement while two others did not even measure compliance. Five of the six reports found their training for derivative classifiers did not adequately prepare those employees to make such decisions.
Further, none of the reports found their agency’s self-inspection program in full compliance with an executive order on the topic, and one revealed that its agency did not assess performance metrics as part of its oversight of the classification markings program.