Suitability and Fitness Adjudication
DCPAS represents the DOW’s interests regarding suitability and fitness policy and vetting at the following working groups and committees: 1) Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) Personnel Vetting Stakeholders Group; 2) National Background Investigation Services Focus Group; and 3) OPM Suitability Roundtable. DCPAS works with OPM and DCSA to ensure a robust, inclusive, and accessible training curriculum and delivery methodology.
Resources
- DOD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 731, “DOD Civilian Personnel Management System: Suitability and Fitness Adjudication for Civilian Employees”
- Authority: 5 U.S.C. Chapter 73 – Suitability, Security, and Conduct
- Authority: 5 C.F.R. Part 302 – Employment in the Excepted Service
- Authority: 5 C.F.R. Part 315 – Career and Career-Conditional Employment
- Authority: 5 C.F.R. Part 359 – Removal from the Senior Executive Service; Guaranteed Placement in Other Personnel Systems
- Authority: 5 C.F.R. Part 731 - Suitability
- Authority: 5 C.F.R. Part 732 – National Security Positions
- E.O. 12968, “Access to Classified Information,” August 4, 1995, as amended
- E.O. 13467, “Reforming Processes Related to Suitability for Government Employment, Fitness for Contractor Employees, and Eligibility for Access to Classified National Security Information,” June 30, 2008
- E.O. 13488, “Granting Reciprocity on Excepted Service and Federal Contractor Employee Fitness and Reinvestigating Individuals in Positions of Public Trust,” January 16, 2009
- E.O. 13764, "Amending the Civil Service Rules, Executive Order 13488, and Executive Order 13467 To Modernize the Executive Branch-Wide Governance Structure and Processes for Security Clearances, Suitability and Fitness for Employment, and Credentialing, and Related Matters," January 23, 2017
- Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12, August 27, 2004
- DODM 5200.02, “Procedures for The DOD Personnel Security Program,” April 3, 2017
- DOD Memorandum, “Implementation of the Employment Eligibility Verification (E-Verify) Program,” January 22, 2008