Security and Investigative Activities

Abstract

Starting in FY 2022, the Vetting Risk Operations (VRO) develops and implements a scalable capability to include Publicly Available Electronic Information (PAEI), including social media, into background investigations in accordance with Security Executive Agent Directive 5 (SEAD 5) and aligned to the Trusted Workforce 2.0 personnel vetting reform initiative. VRO access to 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 collection, analysis, and reporting tools for PAEI, including as social media, in support of national security eligibility determinations. DoD studies have identified PAEI as a 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 ~3.6 million 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, 2023
• Source ID: 0305128V_7_0400_PB_2023
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2023 funding increase reflects the fact that the FY 2022 President’s Budget request did not include Out-year funding.
• Service Agency Name: Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Costs
• Counterintelligence
• Deployment
• Directives
• Emerging Threats
• Executives
• Investments
• Media
• National Security
• Platforms
• Product Development
• Production
• Security
• Social Media
• Students
• Threats
• Training

Readers

• Cybersecurity.
• Defense Financial Management and Audit.
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

Technology Areas

• Microelectronics