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INTRODUCTION TO PERSONNEL SECURITY (PS113.16.V2)
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INTRODUCTION TO PERSONNEL SECURITY(PS113.16.V2)
Purpose of the Personnel Security Program
1. protect national security by ensuring that only loyal, trustworthy, and reliable
individuals may access classified information and/or be assigned to national security
sensitive positions
2. establishes standards, criteria, and guidelines upon which personnel security
determinations are based
Three classified levels of information
Top Secret, Secret and Confidential
Top Secret
Highest level of classification applying to information that reasonably could be expected
to cause exceptionally grave damage to national security if disclosed
Secret
A classification of information that could be expected to cause serious damage to the
national security if unauthorized disclosure occurs
Confidential
A classification of information that could be expected to cause damage to the national
security if unauthorized disclosure occurs
Three questions are asked of everyone who has a need for access to classified or
sensitive information
1. Is the individual's allegiance solely with the United States and its basic form of
Government?
2. Can the individual be trusted to properly protect classified information and/or perform
other sensitive duties?
3. Is the individual consistently willing and able to carry out security responsibilities?
Spoils System
System by which people were appointed to civil service jobs prior to the Civil Service
Act of 1883
Civil Service Act of 1883
A congressional law that created the U.S. Civil Service Commission and required
employees be appointed on the basis of ability demonstrated by taking an exam.
,Hatch Act of 1939
A congressional law that forbade government officials from participating in partisan
politics and protected government employees from being fired on partisan grounds; it
was revised in 1993 to be less restrictive
Executive Order 10450
Executive Order Security Requirements for Government Employment that mandates
that each civilian officer or employee in any department or government agency is
subject to investigation
Executive Order 10865
Executive Order Safeguarding Classified Information within Industry that requires all
persons employed by government departments and agencies be reliable, trustworthy, of
good conduct and character, and of complete and unwavering loyalty to the United
States.
Executive Order 12968
Executive Order Access to Classified Information and Background Investigative
Standards which established a uniform federal Personnel Security Program for
employees considered for initial or continued access to classified information.
Executive Order 13467
Executive Order Reforming Processes Related to Suitability for Government
Employment, Fitness for Contractor Employees, and Eligibility for Access to Classified
National Security Information authorizing the continued evaluation of personnel who
hold active national security eligibility determinations. It also designates the Director of
National Intelligence as the "Security Executive Agent" with responsibility over security
and public trust clearance processing and the Office of Personnel Management and the
"Suitability Executive Agent" with responsibility and authority for federal employment
suitability investigations and determinations, and authorizes continuous evaluation of
personnel who hold active clearances.
Executive Order 13764
Executive Order amending EO 13488 and EO 13467 modernizing the Executive
Branch-Wide Governance Structure and Processes for Security Clearances, Suitability
and Fitness for Employment and Credentialing and related matters.
Executive Order 13869
Executive Order authorizing the Secretary of Defense to conduct security, suitability and
credentialing background investigations for DOD personnel and renamed Defense
Security Service (DSS) as the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency
(DCSA)
, SEADS
Security Executive Agency Directives
SEAD 3
DNI issued Security Executive Agency Directive entitled, "Reporting Requirements for
Personnel with Access to Classified Information or Who Hold a Sensitive Position,"
which established reporting requirements for all covered individuals with access to
classified or hold sensitive positions.
SEAD 4
DNI issued Security Executive Agency Directive entitled, "National Security Adjudicative
Guidelines," which established the single, common adjudicative criteria for all covered
individual who require initial or continued eligibility for access to classified or hold
sensitive positions.
SEAD 6
DNI issued Security Executive Agency Directive entitled, "Continuous Evaluation,"
which established policy and requirements for the continuous evaluation of cleared
individuals or persons holding sensitive positions.
SEAD 7
DNI issued Security Executive Agency Directive entitled, "Reciprocity of Background
Investigations and National Security Adjudications," which established requirements for
reciprocal acceptance of background investigation and national security adjudications
for initial or continued eligibility for access to classified information or eligibility to hold a
sensitive position.
SEAD 8
DNI-issued Security Executive Agency Directive entitled, "Temporary Eligibility," which
established policy and requirements for authorizing temporary, "interim" eligibility,
temporary; a higher level of or one-time access to classified, or temporary eligibility to
hold a sensitive position or higher level sensitive position when determined in the
national security interest.
Bond Amendment
Congressional law repealing Title 10 USC Section 966 "Smith Amendment" and placed
similar restrictions on all federal government agencies including: baring persons from
holding a national security eligibility for access to Special Access Programs, Restricted
Data and Sensitive Compartmented Information, if they have been convicted of a crime
and served more than one year of incarceration, were discharged from the Armed
Forces under dishonorable conditions, were determined to be mentally incompetent by
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