Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)

Information that law, regulation or government-wide policy requires to have safeguarding or disseminating controls excluding information that is classified. Reference CUI Registry at www.achrives.gov/cui

Certain unclassified information requiring safeguarding and dissemination controls mandated by statute or policy. Examples of such information within DOE include Official Use Only (OUO), Export Controlled Information (ECI), Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI), unclassified Naval Nuclear Propulsion Information (U-NNPI), and protected Personally Identifiable Information (PII). Within DOE other terms have been used, such as Unclassified Controlled Information (UCI) and Sensitive Unclassified Information (SUI), to refer to information that warrants protection as CUI. (Note: Current Government-wide efforts are under way to standardize CUI markings. Refer to www.osti.gov/stip, which will be updated for most current information.)

CUI is information the Government creates or possesses, or that an entity creates or possesses for or on behalf of the Government, that a LRGWP requires or permits an agency to handle using safeguarding or dissemination controls. CUI does not include classified information or information a non-executive branch entity possesses and maintains in its own systems that did not come from, or was not created or possessed by or for, an executive branch agency or an entity acting for an agency.

Unclassified information that requires safeguarding and dissemination controls, to the extent consistent with applicable statutes, regulations and Government policies.

Information the Government creates or possesses, or that an entity creates or possesses for or on behalf of the Government, that a law, regulation, or Government-wide policy (LRGWP) requires or permits an agency to handle using safeguarding or dissemination controls. CUI does not include classified information or information a non-executive branch entity possesses and maintains in its own systems that did not come from, or was not created or possessed by or for, an executive branch agency or an entity acting for an agency.