Enterprise Security System

Abstract

The Defense Security Service (DSS) supports national security and the warfighter through its industrial security oversight, education, and insider threat missions. The DSS is responsible for overseeing the protection of classified information and technologies, and materials in the hands of cleared industry by ensuring compliance with the National Industrial Security Program (NISP) on behalf of 26 Department of Defense (DoD) components and 31 other U.S. Federal agencies. The NISP serves as a single, integrated, cohesive industrial security program to protect classified information and to preserve our Nation’s economic and technological interests. The DSS provides security oversight, counterintelligence coverage and support to approximately 10,000 cleared companies (comprising over 13,000 industrial facilities and about 850,000 cleared contractors), and accreditation of more than 55,000 workstations across multiple and differing classified networks that process classified information and 160 Secure Internet Protocol Router Networks (SIPRNet) nodes. The DSS NISP oversight role includes responsibility for the majority of the cleared contractors in the United States to include determination, issuance, and oversight of facility security clearances and making determination that contractor employees are eligible to access classified information. The oversight roles include: Conducting required NISP assessments to deter, detect, and identify loss or compromise of classified information and ensure corrective actions; Accrediting classified contractor computer systems to allow industry to perform on classified programs; Completing Foreign Ownership, Control, and Influence (FOCI) mitigation agreements and properly analyzing, evaluating and providing oversight to cleared firms under FOCI agreements.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2018
Source ID
0604130V_7_0400_PB_2018
Change Summary Explanation
FY17 – Amended Budget Request: +2.9M - is required to address emergency warfighter readiness. Funds are needed to continue the development of the National Industrial Security System (NISS). NISS increment 2 will provide critical functionality with a cross domain solution between NIPR and SIPR environments as well as create a SIPR version of the NISS application. This capability bridges the foundational technology gap with the DSS risk based threat approach to oversee the protection of national security information relative to the development of our nation's most critical warfighter programs. In the absence of this capability, DSS will divert resources to legacy systems which require menial data entry rather than meaningful security, counter-intelligence operations and analysis. FY18 Budget Request: represents a $2.5M decrease from the FY17 PB; the FY18 funding request of $4.6M is required to continue development of the Defense Security Service automated mission system capabilities overseeing the protection of classified information and technologies, and materials in the hands of cleared industry. Continuous development activities are required to implement the DSS in Transition (DiT) initiatives to facilitate tailored, threat-driven security oversight and prioritized information sharing. As DoD Security Enterprise continues to evolve, several critical missions have transitioned to DSS, which drives the need for continuous application refresh of existing as well as the acquisition of new advanced technologies in support of new missions. A critical facet of DiT is Phase II of the National Industrial Security System (NISS) which will leverage event driven SIPR communications amongst DSS Components and external- organizations in lieu of schedule driven compliance. NCAISS integration with NISS will ensure access to authorized individuals with the need to know are provided with timely and relevant information to respond on anticipated threats. NCCS, the automated DD-254, will be updated to allow contractors and Government Contracting Authorities (GCAs) to review the full history of submissions for a more holistic view of security requirements and subcontractor relationships.
Service Agency Name
Defense Security Service

Entities

Organizations

  • Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Authentication
  • Commerce
  • Computer Access Control
  • Contractors
  • Contracts
  • Cross Domain
  • Department Of Defense
  • Deployment
  • Education
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Information Security
  • Information Systems
  • National Security
  • Security

Readers

  • Cybersecurity.
  • Defense Financial Management and Audit.
  • Defense Technology Research and Development.

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