[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 205 (Wednesday, October 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Page 49385]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-23091]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Office of the Secretary


Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; Statement 
of Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority

    Part A, Office of the Secretary, Statement of Organization, 
Functions, and Delegations of Authority for the Department of Health 
and Human Services (HHS) is being amended at Part A, Chapter AJ, Office 
of the Assistant Secretary for Administration (ASA), which was last 
amended at 77 FR 2729, dated January 19, 2012, and most recently at 77 
FR 71004, dated November 28, 2012. Part A, Chapter AB, Section AB.20 a 
paragraph on Office of Security and Strategic Information (ABE), is 
being inserted. Part P, Program Support Center (PSC), Statement of 
Organization, Functions, and Delegations of Authority, which was last 
amended at 75 FR 369-370, dated January 5, 2010, is not being amended. 
This notice transfers the onboarding/suitability and physical security 
functions of the Office for Security and Strategic Information (OSSI) 
to PSC. This transfer of functions complements the existing PSC 
component's facilities management functions, parking garage entrance, 
safety-related programs, and other administrative functions. This 
notice also updates information regarding OSSI's direct report to the 
Deputy Secretary, organizational structure, as well as the new roles 
and responsibilities for the Assistant Deputy Secretary for National 
Security and Secretary's Senior Intelligence Official and for OSSI.
    A. Part P, Program Support Center, the statement of organization, 
functions, and delegations of Authority therein need not be changed as 
the transferred functions are within the scope of the functions of PSC 
as described.
    B. Under Chapter AJ, Section AJ.20, Functions, delete the last 
paragraph, which begins with ``Office of Security and Strategic 
Information (AJS),'' in its entirety.
    C. Under Chapter AB, Section AB.20, Functions, insert the following 
new paragraph at the end of the section with the following:

Office of Security and Strategic Information (ABE)

    The Office of Security and Strategic Information is headed by the 
Assistant Deputy Secretary for National Security, who reports directly 
to the Deputy Secretary and also serves as the Secretary's Senior 
Intelligence Official on intelligence and counterintelligence issues. 
The Assistant Deputy Secretary for National Security has been delegated 
original classification authority by the Secretary. The Assistant 
Deputy Secretary for National Security manages the Office of Security 
and Strategic Information (OSSI). OSSI's vision is for HHS personnel to 
successfully accomplish missions worldwide in a security-informed 
manner and with the actionable intelligence needed, at the right time, 
for operational and policy decisions. OSSI's responsibilities include: 
Integrating intelligence and security information into HHS policy and 
operational decisions; assessing, anticipating, and warning of 
potential security threats to the Department and our national security; 
and, providing policy guidance on and managing the OS implementation of 
the Department's security, intelligence and counterintelligence 
programs. OSSI's programs include national security adjudication, 
classified national security information management, secure 
compartmented information facilities management, communications 
security, safeguarding and sharing of classified information, cyber 
threat intelligence, and counterintelligence. In coordination with the 
Director of National Intelligence, OSSI has been designated as a 
Federal Intelligence Coordinating Office and the Assistant Deputy 
Secretary for National Security serves as the HHS Federal Senior 
Intelligence Coordinator. OSSI has responsibilities to establish 
implementing guidance, provide oversight, and manage the Department's 
policy for the sharing, safeguarding, and coordinated exchange of 
information related to national or homeland security with other federal 
departments and agencies, including law enforcement organizations and 
the Intelligence Community, in compliance with HHS policies and 
applicable laws, regulations, and Executive Orders.
    E. Delegation of Authority. Pending further redelegation, 
directives or orders made by the Secretary or Deputy Secretary, all 
delegations and redelegations of authority made to officials and 
employees of affected organizational components will continue in them 
or their successors pending further redelegations, provided they are 
consistent with this reorganization.

Eric D. Hargan,
Acting Secretary, Department of Health and Human Services.
[FR Doc. 2017-23091 Filed 10-24-17; 8:45 am]
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