Controls Over Classified Documents for a Special Access Program at Lockheed Corporation

In response to a congressional request, GAO evaluated policies, procedures, and practices governing a defense contractor's special-access programs and compared them to its document controls for classified information in its regular programs. GAO found that: (1) the system for the regular programs was well managed; (2) the Defense Investigative Service (DIS) made semi-annual security inspections of regular classified document security; (3) contractor security personnel took extra precautions to ensure document security; (4) the system for the special access program documents was not well managed; (5) of the documents the contractor could not account for, all but one were classified secret; (6) contractor officials implemented corrective measures to improve controls over classified information in the special access programs; (7) the contractor was deficient in fulfilling its contractual responsibility to properly control and protect classified information in its special access programs; and (8) DIS did not sufficiently oversee inspections of the systems to protect classified information.