Fixing leaks
Subtitle: assessing the department of defense's approach to preventing and deterring unauthorized disclosures
By: James B. Bruce, W. George Jameson
Contributors: Jameson, W. George, author; National Defense Research Institute (U.S.); Rand Corporation
Series: Rand Corporation research report series; Research report (Rand Corporation)
Publisher: Rand Corporation
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Santa Monica, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 53
ISBN-13: 9780833081803
Subjects: Management; Leaks (Disclosure of information); Information resources management; United States; United States. Department of Defense; Security classification (Government documents); Prevention
Description: In 2012, the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence established the Unauthorized Disclosures Program Implementation Team to prevent and deter the unauthorized disclosures of classified information by all Department of Defense personnel through the implementation of the UD Strategic Plan. RAND was asked to help monitor and assess the potential for effectiveness of this new initiative. Researchers determined that the UD PIT's implementation of the UD Strategic Plan has made important and discernible progress toward its main objectives, but the advances are partial, fragile, and may be impermanent, facing strategic and tactical obstacles. RAND offered 22 recommendations, including ways to sustain and expand the effort, a continued emphasis on top-down support, establishing metrics, improving accountability, and prioritizing responses.
Notes: "National Defense Research Institute."

"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 49-53).
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Background; title: Objective and approach; title: Scope; title: Organization of the document; title: Observations on UD PIT effectiveness. The UD PIT has made discernible progress to date; title: Tackling a historically intractable problem; title: Recommendations. UD PIT management; title: Culture and accountability; title: Policy and new initiatives; title: Studies and outreach.