No Love for Declassification

Information Management Journal, Sep/Oct 2009

DATA SECURITY

U.S. executive branch agencies in fiscal 2008 spent $8.64 billion on their security classification systems (not including classified cost estimates from agencies such as the CLA). Of that amount, only $43 million went to pay for declassification efforts.

Source: May 2009 report to the president from NARA's Information Security Oversight Office, which oversees classification and declassification policies and audits.