ARMY AR 380-5

This regulation applies to all military and civilian members of the ActiveArmy, Army National Guard of the United States (ARNGUS), and U.S. Army Reserve(USAR) and Department of the Army (DA) personnel. During mobilization,chapters and policies contained in this regulation may be modified by theproponent.

This regulation establishes the policy for the classification,downgrading, declassification, transmission, transportation, and safeguardingof information requiring protection in the interests of national security. Itprimarily pertains to classified national security information, now known asclassified information, but also addresses controlled unclassifiedinformation, to include for official use only and sensitive but unclassified.For the purposes of this regulation, classified national security information,or classified information, is defined as information and/or material that hasbeen determined, pursuant to EO 12958 or any predecessor order, to requireprotection against unauthorized disclosure and is marked to indicate itsclassified status when in documentary or readable form. This regulationimplements Executive Order (EO) 12958 and Department of Defense Regulation5200.1-R. This regulation contains the minimum Department of the Army (DA)standards for the protection of classified information and material. Suchstandards may be enhanced but never lessened at command option. Thisregulation also establishes the DA policy on the safeguarding of RestrictedData (RD) and Formerly Restricted Data (FRD) as specified by the Atomic EnergyAct of 1954. This regulation also provides guidance on the proper handling ofsensitive unclassified material. A restatement and interpretation of thepolicy concerning the protection of controlled unclassified information isincluded in this regulation as chapter 5. This regulation does not establishthe special, additional policy for the safeguarding of special categoryinformation to include Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) orCommunications Security (COMSEC), which can be found in AR 380-28 and AR380-40 respectively. It does address the protection of information in anautomated environment (app E) and Special Access Programs (SAPs) (app I).

Edition:

00

Published:

09/29/2000

Number of Pages:

311

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1 file , 2 MB