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[–] LegalTDImmigrant 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

Can you give an example of something that may be considered a SAP? I know it's a secret access program, but what would that entail?

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[–] VOALTRON 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

From wiki:

Special Access Programs (SAPs) in the U.S. Federal Government are security protocols that provide highly classified information with safeguards and access restrictions that exceed those for regular (collateral) classified information. SAPs can range from black projects to routine but especially-sensitive operations, such as COMSEC maintenance or Presidential transportation support. In addition to collateral controls, a SAP may impose more stringent investigative or adjudicative requirements, specialized nondisclosure agreements, special terminology or markings, exclusion from standard contract investigations (carve-outs), and centralized billet systems.[1] Within the Department of Defense, SAP is better known as "SAR" by the mandatory Special Access Required (SAR) markings.

Information so sensitive that it could potentially alter the course of human history if it fell into the wrong hands. Like the secrets to the atomic bomb, for example.