A01_STARLite_ER_Appendix_A-_COMSEC.doc

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APPENDIX A

ADDITIONAL SECURITY GUIDELINES FOR COMSEC

Provided by the CECOM LCMC Director of Intelligence & Security/G2 (Updated: 14 July 2008) Contractor Generated Communications Security (COMSEC) Material: Any material generated by the contractor (including, but not limited to: correspondence, drawings, models, mockups, photographs, schematics, status programs and special inspection reports, engineering notes, computations and training aids) will be classified according to its own content. Classification guidance will be taken from other elements of this Contract Security Classification Specification, DD Form 254, Government furnished equipment or data, or special instructions issued by the Contracting Officer, or his/her duly appointed representative.

REQUIREMENTS:

1.

The requirements of DoD 5220.22-M and NSA/CSS Policy Manual 3-16 are applicable to this effort.

2.

All contractor personnel to be granted access to classified COMSEC information must be U.S. citizens granted FINAL clearance by the government prior to being given access. Immigrant aliens, interim cleared personnel, or personnel holding a contractor granted CONFIDENTIAL clearance are not eligible for access to classified COMSEC information released or generated under this contract without the express permission of the Director, NSA.

3.

Contractor employees or cleared commercial carriers shall not carry classified COMSEC material on commercial passenger aircraft anywhere in the world without the approval of the procuring contracting officer.

4. No contractor generated COMSEC or government furnished material may be provided to the Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC). Contractor generated technical reports will bear the statement "Not Releasable to the Defense Technical Information Center per DoD Directive 5100-38."

5.

Classified paper COMSEC material may be destroyed by burning, disintegration, chopping or high security crosscut shredding. Cryptographic key tapes must be “terminally” destroyed (destroyed to the point where it cannot be reconstructed) utilizing devices listed on the Evaluated Products List (EPL) for Punched Tape Destruction Devices or the EPL for High-Security Disintegrators. A listing of EPLs can be found at http://www.nsa.gov/ia/government/mdg.cfm. When a method other than burning is used, all residue must be reduced to pieces 5mm or smaller in any dimension. When classified COMSEC material other than paper is to be destroyed, specific guidance must be obtained from the User Agency.

6. Unclassified COMSEC information released or generated under this contract shall be restricted in its dissemination to personnel involved in the contract. Release in open literature or exhibition of such information without the express written permission of the Director, NSA, is strictly prohibited.

7. Recipients of COMSEC information under this contract may not release information to subcontractors without permission of the User Agency.

8. Additional notices to be affixed to the cover and title or first page of contractor generated COMSEC documents:

a. "COMSEC MATERIAL - ACCESS BY CONTRACTOR PERSONNEL RESTRICTED TO U.S. CITIZENS HOLDING FINAL GOVERNMENT CLEARANCE."

b. "THIS PUBLICATION OR INFORMATION IT CONTAINS MAY NOT BE RELEASED TO FOREIGN NATIONALS WITHOUT PRIOR SPECIFIC APPROVAL FROM THE DIRECTOR, NSA. ALL APPROVALS WILL IDENTIFY THE SPECIFIC INFORMATION AND COPIES OF THIS PUBLICATION AUTHORIZED FOR RELEASE TO SPECIFIC FOREIGN HOLDERS. ALL REQUESTS FOR ADDITIONAL ISSUANCES MUST RECEIVE PRIOR SPECIFIC APPROVAL FROM THE DIRECTOR, NSA."

9. Point of contact is CECOM LCMC G2, ATTN: AMSEL-MI.