DISCO Update

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• DISCO Update

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DISCO Priorities Timelines

• Process Clearance requests
• Interim determinations (90 are completed in 1-5
  days)
• Request investigations (90 are completed in 1-5
  days)
• Issue final clearance (80 in 30 days by Dec
  2006)
• Process Incident Reports (80 in 30 days by Dec
  2006 all reports are currently triaged within 30
  days)
• Process RRUs (80 in 15 days by Dec 2006 90-120
  days today)
• Trustworthy determinations (80 in 30 days by Dec
  2006 180 days today)

• Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act
  of 2004 mandates
• By December 2006 at least 80 percent of all
  adjudications shall be made within an average of
  30 days
• December 2009 at least 90 percent of all
  adjudications shall be made within an average of
  20 days

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Supplementing Resources

• Overtime
• Utilizing traditional non-direct staff for
  production work
• Realigned FTEs to adjudication work and replaced,
  where possible, with contract personnel
• Leveraging DOD CAF resources
• Beginning in August, DOHA has augmented
  industrial adjudications
• Currently DOHA receives a mix of 110 NACLC, SSBI,
  and SBPR cases per day from DISCO

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On-Going Activities

• Trustworthiness determinations
• Tricare Management Activity
• Defense Logistic Agency
• Defense Manpower Data Center
• SCI determinations
• Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC)
• Interim Suspensions
• Army Linguists

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On-Going Activities (Cont)

• No longer necessary to report overseas
  assignments, returns or re-justifications
• Adjudicator certification
• Collaboration forum/CAF Board Meetings
• No longer necessary to report representatives of
  foreign interest
• Overseas investigations
• Overseas deployment notification
• Catchem in CONUS
• FBI Headquarters Checks

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DSS Payment Process for NISP Billing

• Review of bills for three months disclosed
• Contractors submitting PSIs directly to OPM
• Requesters using incorrect SON and/or SOI
• MilDeps, agencies and contractors using incorrect
  online payment and collection (OPAC) codes for
• PSIs for security clearances
• PSIs for trustworthiness clearances

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Billing for Security Clearance Investigations

• NISP PSIs must be submitted through DISCO
• If not submitted through DISCO, OPM will reject
• Upon receipt, DISCO will
• Verify need for clearance
• Determine eligibility for interim clearance
• Ensure that requester has entered correct SON and
  SOI to ensure NISP funds are used to pay for the
  investigation

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Billing for Trustworthiness Investigations

• Contractors must
• consult with MilDep or agency to determine
• Agency locator code (ALC)
• OPAC number
• Enter correct SON and SOI
• OPM will reject trustworthiness investigation
  requests with OPAC ALC numbers identifiable with
  DISCO/NISP (DSS-IND)

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DoD Case Billing
Per DSS and OPM agreement, all DoD investigations
will be billed by SON, OPAC and SOI
NISP EXAMPLE
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Research/Re-Certify/Upgrade (R/R/U)

• Process Request submitted by JCAVS User
• Research Conversion
• Re-Certify Reinstatement
• Upgrade Upgrade
• DISCO updates Eligibility
• Should not be submitted for other reasons, such
  as status inquiries, request to adjudicate an
  investigation or in response to a rejected PSQ
• Status inquiries should be made to the DoD
  Security Services Center at 1-888-282-7682
• Compelling needs should be emailed to
  clearance_at_dss.mil

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Top 10 Reasons for DISCO e-QIP Rejection

• Start date or current employer information
• Selective Service Number
• Status of debtscomplete information on financial
  items (names, addresses of creditors)
• Missing coverage (or gaps) in employment,
  education and/or residence
• Citizenship information for foreign born family
  members residing in the United States

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Top 10 Reasons for DISCO e-QIP Rejection(Cont)

• SSN and/or POB information for adults currently
  residing with applicant (co-habitant)
• Citizenship/Naturalization information for the
  subject (or spouse) of the investigation
• References
• Applicant verifying self-employment and/or
  employment periods
• Missing details for Sections 21 (Medical Record)
  and 23 (Police Record)

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Reasons for OPM e-QIP Rejection

• Missing fingerprint cards
• Missing signed releases/certifications
• Discrepant information between e-QIP and
  fingerprint cards (e.g., Date of Birth, Place of
  Birth
• Canadian and/or Australian release forms
• Missing complete addresses for employment
• Clarification of whether National Guard (listed
  in the employment section) is full- or part-time
  employment

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Interim Eligibility

• Many applicants can not be granted interims due
  to lack of clarifying details in the SF86 remarks
  section. Providing this information will assist
  in making the interim eligibility decision.
• Financial Considerations - Provide details of
  bankruptcies and planned payments
• Emotional, Mental, and Personality Disorders -
  Applicants who have received psychological
  treatment during the past seven years should
  provide the following information in the remarks
  section of the SF86 Reasons for treatment
  Diagnosis Frequency of treatment Medication
  prescribed and Dates of hospitalization
• Drug Involvement - Provide dates of use and types
  of drugs involved
• Criminal Conduct - Provide dates of
  arrests/convictions and length of incarceration
  (if any).
• Foreign Preference Provide nature of financial
  or personal relationships with listed foreign
  persons and dates of association
• DSS is not providing written responses to
  requests for information explaining why an
  applicant was not granted an interim clearance.
  Clarifying information with examples as to when
  an interim clearance may not be granted has been
  posted to the DSS website.

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Adjudication Guidelines

• There are 13 adjudicative guidelines that DISCO,
  along with other CAFs, use to adjudicate
  eligibilities
• These guidelines are the same for final and
  interim eligibilities
• Difference is the information available to make a
  decision
• Currently
• Declining 15 percent of applications for Interims
• Sending 6.4 percent to DOHA for adjudication

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Adjudication Guidelines

• Allegiance to the U.S.
• Foreign Influence
• Foreign Preference
• Sexual Behavior
• Personal Conduct
• Financial Considerations
• Alcohol Consumption
• Drug Involvement
• Emotional, Mental Personality Disorders
• Criminal Conduct
• Security Violations
• Outside Activities
• Misuse of Information Technology Systems

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Guideline Structure

• Basis what the guideline covers
• Disqualifying Conditions
• Serious enough to be disqualifying
• One or more conditions
• Mitigating Conditions
• Reduces the seriousness
• May or may not be present
• May or may not outweigh the disqualifying
  information

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Guideline Example

• Drug InvolvementImproper or illegal involvement
  with Drugs raises questions regarding willingness
  or ability to protect classified information
• Disqualifying Conditions
• Any drug abuse
• Illegal drug possession
• Failure to complete treatment program
• Mitigating Conditions
• Drug involvement was not recent
• Involvement was isolated or infrequent
• Demonstrated intent not to use drugs in future
• Satisfactory completion of drug treatment program

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Dual Citizens

• Foreign Preference
• Conditions that could be disqualifying - examples
• Possession/use of a foreign passport
• Willingness to bear arms for a foreign country
• Accepting benefits from a foreign country such as
  educational, medical, retirement or social
  welfare
• Conditions that could mitigate concerns
• Based on parents citizenship or birth in foreign
  country
• Indication of possible foreign preference
  occurred before becoming a U.S. citizen
• Expressed a willingness to renounce dual
  citizenship

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Requirement to identify RFIs Eliminated

• Guideline L Outside Activities
• A concern if it poses conflict of interest
• Conditions that could cause concern include any
  service with a foreign country, foreign national
  or foreign interest
• Mitigations include outside activity does not
  pose a conflict with an individuals security
  responsibilities
• Individual discontinues activity upon being
  notified there is a conflict

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Due Process

• No unfavorable final personnel security
  eligibility determination shall be rendered
  without first affording due process in accordance
  with established DoD personnel security program
  regulations and executive order

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Continuous Evaluation Program (CEP)

• Continuous evaluation while holding a security
  eligibility
• Continuous evaluation is defined as
  Uninterrupted assessment of a person for
  retention of security eligibility or continuing
  assignment to sensitive duties.

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CEP (Cont)

• The CEP requires that persons who are authorized
  access to classified information continually meet
  certain standards of
• Trustworthiness
• Reliability
• Loyalty

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CEP (Cont)

• The integrity of the CEP rests with
• Adverse information reports
• Individual culpability reports
• Reinvestigation of persons with security
  eligibilities at periodic intervals
• A PR is required at five-year intervals for
  individuals with Top Secret eligibility
• Secret level PR is due at 10 years

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