SF716
Agency Security Classification Costs Estimates
Standard Form 716 (SF 716), Agency Security Classification Costs Estimates, is a National Archives and Records Administration form, prescribed by NARA/ISOO under 32 CFR Part 2001.90 and E.O. 13526. GSA hosts a copy in its forms library. The edition printed on the form is 07-11.
It is a one-page report on which a department or agency gives cost estimates for one fiscal year, in actual dollar figures, across nine reporting categories of classification-related activities, with a total and a narrative. The instructions say the data reported will be Government cost estimates only.
Pages 2 to 4 define each category and explain how to complete the form. You can fill it out free in your browser on this page and download the result without an account.
Personnel security covers the clearance program, initial investigations, national agency checks used to grant a clearance, adjudication, reinvestigation and polygraph. Physical security covers equipment, protective forces, intrusion detection, barriers, badging and visitor control.
Resources used to identify, control, transfer, transmit, retrieve, inventory, archive, declassify or destroy classified information, and to process information under automatic, systematic, discretionary or mandatory review programs.
Protection and maintenance of classified information systems, including TEMPEST and Communications Security (COMSEC), then Operations Security and Technical Surveillance Countermeasures.
Professional education, training and awareness, then security management, oversight and planning, which includes research and testing, surveys, special access programs, investigations, industrial security and FOCI.
Unique Items for department or agency specific activities not reported elsewhere, the total of items 1 to 9, and a narrative explaining significant differences from last year and any Unique Items.
The form says to use actual dollar figures for each category.
Enter the department or agency, the fiscal year and the point of contact's name and phone number.
List cost estimates in dollar amounts for each of the nine categories. The instructions say the cost of personnel tied to the security of classified information is included in each category.
The form says a resource is included if 51% or more of it is devoted to a classification-related activity, and part-time resources count only if their time over a year reaches at least 51%.
The instructions say to exclude costs for broad areas of assets protection and not to include counterintelligence resources.
If there is no cost estimate for a category, the form says to indicate it with a 0 in the block. The totals for blocks 1 to 9 are placed automatically.
In the narrative or a separate attachment, briefly explain how the estimates were determined, any significant difference between fiscal years, and every figure in Unique Items.
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The PDF prints no submission address or due date. Each page footer reads Prescribed by NARA/ISOO, 32 CFR Part 2001.90, E.O. 13526.
Special access program costs go under category 8. The form says Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) programs are not included as SAPs here, and SCI security costs are estimated throughout all categories as appropriate.
The instructions say the form no longer asks for the number of FTEs, but the cost of personnel tied to the security of classified information stays in each category.
Each page footer says the form is authorized for local reproduction.
SF 716 is completed by a federal department or agency, not by the public. The form does not print where it is sent.
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The footer says the form is prescribed by NARA/ISOO and names the National Archives and Records Administration, 32 CFR Part 2001.90 and E.O. 13526. GSA hosts a copy in its forms library.
The instructions say to exclude costs for broad areas of assets protection, meaning protection of property and personnel not specifically related to classified information, and not to include counterintelligence resources.
The form says a resource used part-time for classification-related activities is included only if the total time devoted to them over a year is at least 51%.
Department or agency specific activities that are not reported in any other category but are significant. The form says any unique item needs a narrative on why it is included and how the figures were developed.
The instructions say to indicate it with a 0 in the appropriate block.
