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Information
  • Any communication or reception of knowledge such as facts, data, or opinions, including numerical, graphic, or narrative forms, whether oral or maintained in any medium, including computerized data bases, paper, microform, or magnetic tape. (A-130;; DODD 5200. 28;)
  • The terms "data", "information", "material", "documents", and "matter" are considered synonymous and used interchangeably in this order. They refer to all data regardless of its physical form (e. g. , data on paper printouts, tapes, disks or disk packs, in memory chips, random access memory (RAM), in read only memory (ROM), microfilm or microfiche, on communication lines, and on display terminals). (DOE 5636. 2A;)
  • Unevaluated material of every description, at all levels of reliability, and from any source that may contain intelligence information (IC Staff, Glossary of Intelligence Terms and Definitions, 6/89).
  • Any information or material, regardless of its physical form or characteristics, that is owned by, produced by or for, or is under the control of the United States Government. (EO 12356; DOE 5635. lA)
  • Knowledge such as facts, data, or opinions, including numerical, graphic, or narrative forms, whether oral or maintained in any medium. (DODD 5200. 28)
  • The end product of communication. (NACSEM 5100) 7. See Data