Security and Investigative Activities

Abstract

DCSA continues to conduct pilots and research to inform the development and implementation of a scalable capability to include Publicly Available Social Media Information (PASMI), 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. The investment supports research projects with University of Maryland Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS), pilots with commercial vendors, and research collaboration with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). DCSA will work with DARPA to help scope and execute surrogate use case studies leveraging the DARPA’s program research and capabilities. This collaboration allows for the development and integration of validated tools and techniques into capabilities supporting DCSA’s mission. DoD studies have identified PASMI 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. PASMI will not be the sole source of information guiding a decision. It adds a data layer, supplementing an already wide-ranging compilation of information contributing to common sense determinations about an individual’s suitability. DCSA continues exploration to determine the most efficient and cost-effective means by which to integrate social media checks into background investigations and continuous vetting, in a manner which yields the most productive outcomes, while not exponentially increasing product costs.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2024
• Source ID: 0305128V_7_0400_PB_2024
• Service Agency Name: Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• California
• Case Studies
• Costs
• Counterintelligence
• Deployment
• Directives
• Executives
• Investments
• Maryland
• Media
• National Security
• Product Development
• Production
• Security
• Social Media
• Teamwork
• Universities

Readers

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