 While the executive order, rescission of the order, and subsequent policy structure worked their way through the government, the timeline for the study/ analysis, creation of a draft policy and framework, the political processes, and the resulting policy implementation lasted from 2005 through 2017.The study was lead by Grace Mastalli and Richard Russell.The US Department of Defense has been handling "Controlled Unclassified Information" well before the Presidential 2008 memorandum was published and NARA became the Executive Agent in 2010.