Security and Investigative Activities

Abstract

Starting in FY 2022, the DCSA Vetting Risk Operations Center (VROC) incorporates a Publicly Available Electronic Information (PAEI) program to include social media monitoring as a national-level requirement under Trusted Workforce 2.0 and fulfills the Secretary of Defense’s imperative to leverage PAEI to identify domestic extremism, prior to and during an individual’s DoD affiliation. Leveraging PAEI also fulfills the Secretary’s requirements to improve the vetting of International Military Students who intend to or are currently receiving training within the continental U.S. The investment develops scraping, monitoring, and analysis tools for PAEI, such as social media, in support of national security eligibility determinations. PAEI has proven a high volume but unique data source to identify key behaviors that are potentially derogatory under the Allegiance, Foreign Influence, Foreign Preference, and Personal Conduct guidelines of the National Security Adjudication Guidelines. Data received from PAEI is often not found anywhere else in the course of the personnel vetting cycle. To utilize PAEI within the Department, on a national security population of ~3.6M individuals, the Department is developing a scalable, cost-effective, and automated capability. A PAEI investment will deliver a capability flexible to changing cultural conditions, policy requirements, and emerging threats, while simultaneously able to constantly monitor millions of people on hundreds of social media platforms with billions of individual data points, aggregate and curate that data, identify potential risk, and seamlessly provide notification in a digestible analytical product to a human for risk mitigation.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0305128V_7_0400_PB_2022
• Service Agency Name: Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Acquisition
• Artificial Intelligence
• Behavioral Research
• Costs
• Counterintelligence
• Data Acquisition
• Deployment
• Emerging Threats
• Graphical User Interface
• Machine Learning
• National Security
• Product Development
• Security
• Social Media
• Students
• Training
• User Interface

Readers

• Agent-Based Social Robotics and Mobile-Assisted Learning in Virtual Environments.
• Cybersecurity.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics