Personnel security
PSIs will not normally be requested for any civilian or military personnel who will be retired, resigned, or separated with less than what amount of service remaining?
1 year
Commanding Officers are responsible for day-to-day PSP management and suspending access to classified information for cause when warranted, notifying the DON CAF within how many days and forwarding all pertinent information to DON CAF for a personnel security eligibility determination?
10
A NACLC is conducted at 10-year and how many-year intervals to support continued access to Secret and Confidential classified information, respectively?
15
The Policy Coordinating Committees (PCC) are how many interagency committees established by National Security Presidential Directive (NSPD-1) to coordinate interagency national security policy issues?
17
The scope of an SSBI covers the most recent 10 years of the subject's life or from the 18th birthday, whichever is the shorter period; however, at least the last how many years will be covered?
2
When the Security Termination Statement is executed at the conclusion of a Limited Access Authorization, the original will be retained in command files for how many years?
2
A previously conducted PSI valid for security clearance purposes may suffice for appointment or commissioning purposes. A new investigation is required upon reentry of officers and enlisted members if there has been a break in active service greater than how many months?
24
An ANACI or SSBI is required for reappointment to a federal government sensitive position if there has been a break in service greater than how many months?
24
NAF employees assigned to positions of trust within DoD will be the subject of a favorably adjudicated NACI completed no greater than how many months prior to appointment?
24
A sensitive position is any position whose occupant could bringabout, by virtue of the nature of the position, an adverse effect on the national security. How many sensitivity levels are there?
3
How many basic DON IT levels and one overarching DON control level?
3
The President, Personnel Security Appeals Board (PSAB) presides over the PSAB, a how many-member panel appointed by CNO (N09N) to review and decide appeals of unfavorable DON CAF determinations?
3
Access to SIOP-ESI requires a Top Secret security clearance eligibility based on a favorably adjudicated SSBI. The SSBI need not have been completed within the past five years to grant access to SIOP-ESI, providing a new SSBI or SSBI-PR is initiated within how many days?
30 days
A NACI consists of a NAC plus Written Inquiries to former employers and supervisors, to references, and to schools covering the previous how many years?
5
SSBI-PRs are conducted on personnel whose clearance/access to SCI or Top Secret information is based on an investigation that is how many years old or more?
5
The IAM must have a favorable SSBI completed within five years of initial assignment, which is updated by Single Scope Background Investigation-Periodic Reinvestigation (SSBI-PR) every how many years?
5
The command security manager must be a U.S. citizen and have been the subject of a favorably adjudicated Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI) completed within how many years prior to assignment?
5
The designated security manager of a command must have a favorably adjudicated SSBI or SSBI-PR completed within the past how many years?
5
For those who have continuous assignment or access to Top Secret, critical sensitive positions, SCI, Presidential Support Activities, COSMIC Top Secret, LAA, PRP, IT-1 duties or SIOP-ESI, the SSBI must be updated every how many years by a PR?
5 years
A debriefing will be given to individuals who no longer require access to classified information as a result of temporarily separating for a period of how many days or more, including sabbaticals, leave without pay status, or transfer to the Inactive Ready Reserves (IRR)?
60
Personnel operating a vehicle or providing security to a vehicle transporting Category I, II or Confidential AA&E require a favorably adjudicated NACLC or what else?
ANACI
The investigative basis for Secret or Confidential clearance eligibility is a favorably completed NACLC or what else?
ANACI
What is the minimum requirement for civilian summer hires in all designated non-critical sensitive positions including summer hires, intermittent and seasonal appointees, or work/study and cooperative education program employees?
ANACI
All personnel who have access to material classified Secret or above must receive periodic briefings, how often, on all threats posed by foreign intelligence and terrorist organizations?
Annually
Among the minimum requirements for security education is the requirement of refresher briefings for personnel who have access to classified information how often?
Annually
Commands will advise personnel of the particular vulnerabilities associated with foreign travel during orientation and refresher briefs how often?
Annually
Who interprets EO provisions in response to questions arising from implementation upon request from the head of an agency or the Director, ISOO?
Attorney General of the U.S.
The authority to take action to deny acceptance or retention in the Navy and Marine Corps, except for loyalty reasons, is vested in the what along with the CMC?
CHNAVPERS
Who is responsible for ensuring that the DON has an effective PSP and for complying with all directives issued by higher authority?
CNO
Who is responsible for the coordination of the approval, administration, support, review, oversight, and reporting of all DON SAPs?
CNO
Who is responsible for ensuring personnel security requirements for Navy military members are properly identified to JPAS and that matters relating to the DON's PSP are appropriately coordinated with CNO (N09N2)?
Chief of naval personnel
What sensitivity level carries with it the potential for grave to exceptionally grave impact and/or damage?
Critical sensitive (CS)
Who is charged by Title 50 U.S.C. Section 403(g), National Security Act of 1947, with protecting intelligence sources and methods?
DCI
Employees assigned to IT-DAA designated positions require a favorably adjudicated SSBI or SSBI-PR to what standards?
DCID 6/4
The investigative basis for assignment to a designated Special-Sensitive/IT-DAA position is a favorably completed and adjudicated SSBI, SSBI-PR, or PPR, in accordance with what?
DCID 6/4
Certain matters affecting national security must be reported to the what so appropriate counter intelligence action can be taken?
DIRNCIS
Requests for investigation of contractor personnel for security clearance eligibility are processed by the OPM and adjudicated by what?
DISCO
What makes personnel security eligibility determinations for individuals in private industry (contractors) who need access to classified information in order to perform their jobs and responds to requests for information regarding contractor personnel security clearance applications?
DISCO
What administers due process procedures for Industrial Security Program unfavorable personnel security determinations and provides hearings and appeals support to DoD military and civilian unfavorable personnel security determinations?
DOHA
The Director of what reports directly to DIRNCIS and is the personnel security adjudicative determination authority for all individuals affiliated with the DON?
DON CAF
What has been delegated the authority in the DON to make de facto suitability determinations only on investigations closed without actionable issues?
DON CAF
What is the adjudicative authority for all DON contractor personnel requiring SCI access eligibility?
DON CAF
When personnel who have access to classified information commit or attempt to commit suicide, the individual's commanding officer will immediately forward all available information to the nearest NCIS office for action, with an information copy to the what?
DON CAF
Who is responsible for ensuring the information technology security for DON Information Technology (IT) systems?
DON CIO
What coordinates the intelligence efforts of the Army, Navy and Air Force and is responsible for implementation of standards and operational management of Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) for the DoD?
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
What administers the DoD Industrial Security Program, DoD's Security Education, Training and Awareness Program, and serves as the Executive Agency for PSP automation, including the Joint Personnel Adjudication System (JPAS) and DoD's Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing (e-Qip) program?
Defense Security Service (DSS)
Who is a United States cabinet-level official who serves as the head of the Intelligence Community (IC), and is the principal advisor to the President, the NSC, and the Homeland Security Council for intelligence matters related to national security?
Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
What has the responsibility for issuing directives as necessary to implement EO 12958 and provides guidance regarding the Classified Information Nondisclosure Agreement, Standard Form (SF) 312?
Director of the Information Security Oversight Office (ISOO)
Persons designated as assistant security managers must be U.S. citizens, and either officers, enlisted persons what rank or above, or civilians GS-6, or above?
E6
A TSCO must be an officer, senior non-commissioned officer what rank or above, or a civilian employee, GS- 7 or above?
E7
Employment suitability adjudications are based on standards and criteria established by what, and are normally made by the employing command?
EO 10450
Under what, "Citizenship Requirements for Federal Employment" September 2, 1976, only U.S. citizens may be employed in competitive service positions in the Federal civil service without approval from the OPM?
EO 11935
Personnel security determinations are based on criteria established by what?
EO 12968
What establishes, to the extent possible, uniform and consistent personnel security investigative requirements?
EO 12968
Standards for the classification and safeguarding of national security information are detailed in EO 12958 and further amended by what?
EO 13292
The SECDEF has specifically directed that Security Termination Statements will be executed by senior officials (flag and general officers, what paygrade and above, Senior Executive Service and equivalent positions)?
ES-1
What refers to those identifiable character traits and past conduct which are sufficient to demonstrate the likelihood that an employee or applicant will carry out assigned federal government duties with the necessary efficiency and effectiveness?
Employment suitability
What is the primary internal security agency of the Government with jurisdiction over investigative matters, which include espionage, sabotage, treason and other subversive activities?
FBI
Contractor employees who require access to DON controlled/restricted areas, NOT involving sensitive information or IT equipment and not involving access to classified information will be processed under what DON Program?
Facility Access Determination (FAD)
The command security manager may be assigned full-time, part-time or as a collateral duty and must be a military officer or a civilian employee, what paygrade or above, with sufficient authority and staff to manage the program for the command?
GS 11
A person designated as a Top Secret Control Assistant (TSCA) must be a U.S. citizen and either an officer, enlisted person E-5 or above, or civilian employee what pay grade or above?
GS 5
The SSO and a subordinate SSO will be appointed, in writing, and each will be a U.S. citizen and either a commissioned officer or a civilian employee in what pay grade or above?
GS 9
Who is responsible for establishing, implementing and maintaining the DON information system and information assurance program and is responsible to the commanding officer for developing, maintaining, and directing the implementation of the information assurance (IA) program within the command?
IAM
Execution of the nondisclosure agreement forms will be recorded in what?
JPAS
What is the basic EO 10450 investigative standard for federal government civil service employment suitability determinations?
NACI
What is the investigative basis for assignment to a Non-Sensitive/IT-III?
NACI
The investigative basis for assignment to a designated Non-Critical Sensitive/IT-II position is a favorably completed and adjudicated ANACI for civilians or what for military/industry employees?
NACLC
What provides centralized coordination and direction for signals intelligence and communications security for the Federal Government?
NSA
What includes a search of DoD's Defense Clearance and Investigations Index (DCII), OPM's Reimbursable Suitability Investigation (RSI), Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) investigative and criminal history files including a technical fingerprint search and files of other federal government agency records as appropriate to the individual's background (Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), etc.)?
National Agency Check (NAC)
Investigative requirements for DON contractor personnel requiring access to classified information are managed under the what?
National Industrial Security Program (NISP)
What provides overall policy guidance on information and personnel security matters?
National security council NSC
Who is delegated the authority to approve or disapprove requests for access to or transfer of DON technical data or disclosure of DON classified or sensitive unclassified information to foreign governments, international organizations and their representatives in accordance with national disclosure policy
Navy PIO
What sensitivity level carries with it the potential for some to serious impact and/or damage?
Non-critical sensitive (NCS)
What conducts (or controls the conduct of) all PSIs for the DON?
OPM
What is the single provider of personnel security investigative products for the DoD?
OPM
What provides the rules and regulations to carry out the employment suitability determination program under Title 5, United States Code of Federal Regulation (CFR)?
OPM
Individuals must read and execute a Security Termination Statement (what form), at the time of debriefing?
OPNAV 5511/14
Circular A-130 from what office provides the criteria for determining IT position risk levels, considering the level of automated privileges afforded, the level of fiscal privileges afforded, the scope of responsibilities, the level of independence and oversight afforded, and the ability to access sensitive information?
Office of management and budget (OMB)
What is responsible for the security management, implementation, and oversight of SCI security programs for CNO(N2)?
Office of naval intelligence (ONI)
The investigative basis for Top Secret clearance eligibility is a favorably completed SSBI, SSBI-PR or what else?
PPR
No individual will be given access to classified information or be assigned to sensitive duties unless a favorable personnel security determination has been made regarding his/her loyalty, reliability and trustworthiness. What is conducted to gather information pertinent to these determinations?
Personnel security investigation (PSI)
The objective of what is to authorize initial and continued access to classified information and/or initial and continued assignment to sensitive duties to those persons whose loyalty, reliability and trustworthiness are such that entrusting them with classified information or assigning them to sensitive duties is clearly consistent with the interests of national security?
Personnel security program
What is conducted for applicants/potential nominees for SCI access?
Pre nomination interview
The authority to deny appointment or terminate employment of civilian personnel for loyalty reasons is vested solely in the what?
SECNAV
Who is responsible for establishing and maintaining a PSP in compliance with the provisions of EOs, public laws, NSC, DoD regulations and other security directives regarding trustworthiness standards and the protection of classified information?
SECNAV
Who is the DON agency head responsible under EO 12968 for establishing and maintaining an effective PSP to ensure that access to classified information by each DON employee is clearly consistent with the interests of national security?
SECNAV
The duties and functions of the IAM are prescribed by "Department of the Navy Information Assurance (IA) Policy," which is what instruction?
SECNAVINST 5239.3A
Foreign representatives are governed by foreign disclosure policies and procedures in what instruction, Disclosure of Classified Military Information and Controlled Unclassified Information to Foreign Representatives?
SECNAVINST 5510.34A
What instruction provides the standards of individual reliability required for personnel performing duties involving nuclear weapons and components?
SECNAVINST 5510.35A
The investigative requirement for access to SCI is a favorably adjudicated what?
SSBI
A technical fingerprint search of the FBI files is conducted as part of a NAC, except during a what?
SSBI-PR
Individuals with SCI access should be referred to their what for foreign travel briefing requirements?
SSO
Who is the principal advisor on the SCI security program in the command and is responsible to the commanding officer for the management and administration of the program?
SSO
What offers the Naval Security Manager Course, DON unique core training developed to train security managers, but also available to security specialists and assistants?
STAAT
Among the minimum requirements for security education is the requirement of Counterintelligence briefings annually for personnel who have access to information classified what or above?
Secret
Who is the key in developing and administering the command's ISP and PSP
Security manager
Programs requiring security measures in addition to those requirements for the protection of Top Secret, Secret or Confidential classified information, which are established by and within the DoD are referred to as what?
Special access programs (SAP)
What sensitivity level carries with it the potential for inestimable impact and/or damage?
Special sensitive (SS)
