Contractor Integrity: Stronger Safeguards Needed for Contractor Access to Sensitive Information, GAO-10-693, September 10, 2010
“GAOs analysis of guidance and contract actions at three agencies found areas where sensitive information is not fully safeguarded and thus may remain at risk of unauthorized disclosure or misuse. The Departments of Defense (DOD), Homeland Security (DHS), and Health and Human Services (HHS) have all supplemented the FAR and developed some guidance and standard contract provisions, but the safeguards available in DODs and HHSs guidance do not always protect all relevant types of sensitive information contractors may access during contract performance (examples of some types of sensitive information contractors may access are listed below). Also, DODs, DHSs, and HHSs supplemental FAR guidance do not specify contractor responsibilities for prompt notification to the agency if unauthorized disclosure or misuse occurs.”
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