9. Implement the National Industrial Security Program. The Information Security Oversight Office, currently in GSA, should aggressively continue to work with industrial organizations under contract with the government to ensure the protection of classified information while reducing costs and redundant requirements and improving efficiency as described in Executive Order 12829, January 8, 1993, National Industrial Security Program (NISP).[13] This office, along with the Secretary of Defense, Secretary of Energy, and Director of Central Intelligence, should continue to work cooperatively with industry to implement the NISP. The following should be considered as a minimum: publication of a NISP operating manual; development of cost collection and tracking mechanisms; development of governmentwide standardized background investigation forms and processes, as appropriate; standardized policy on reciprocity of investigations and inspections; portability of security clearances across agencies; development of uniform, standardized training and education requirements for industry and associated curricula and competency evaluation for government industrial security representatives; and the implementation and enforcement of NISP standards. Endnotes 13. Executive Order 12829, "National Industrial Security Program," Federal Register, vol. 58, no. 5 (January 8, 1993), pp. 3479-3483.
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