2331 Mill Road 4th Floor Alexandria, VA 22314 25 Sep 2015 Mr. John A. Smith President ABC Widget Company (8VH47) 1234 Main Street, Suite 204 Pasadena, CA 23872 Mr. Smith, This letter is provided to your office to notify you that upon review of current programs your facility supports it was identified that no access to classified takes place and that the contractual requirements placed on your facility for a Facility Clearance (FCL) do not meet the eligibility requirements. Access to a government installation, issuance of a Common Access Card (CAC), or privileged access to an unclassified, but sensitive network or programs does not require a facility or personnel security clearance. It was requested that your Facility Security Officer validate the need to maintain an FCL. Information provided still does not meet the FCL or personnel security clearance (PCL) eligibility requirements per the NISPOM. Our office has provided references and guidance to your facility to review and provide to your respective government customers. We can communicate directly with your government customers if necessary to further explain the FCL and PCL eligibility requirements. The Defense Security Service (DSS) and CDCs should not submit PCL investigations for installation access or administrative/privileged access to unclassified networks or systems. Per HSPD-12, Policy for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors, the government customer initiates these investigations if required, but no access to classified should be granted.
It is DSS policy to administratively terminate any Facility Security Clearance (FCL)
when there has been no bona fide procurement requirement for access to classified information. If our information is incorrect, please advise this office if you anticipate classified access in the immediate future. Please provide this office with the contract, bid or proposal under which this information was furnished and include a copy of the DD Form 254, Contract Security Classification Specification. If there has been no such access, we will initiate action to administratively terminate your FCL thirty (30) days from the date of this letter or as soon as we are notified by your office to proceed with administrative termination, pursuant to the provisions of Section IV of the Department of Defense Security Agreement, DD Form 441. Action will also be required to be taken on your facility's personnel records in the Joint Personnel Adjudication System (JPAS) to properly remove access and out-process individuals. Administrative termination should not be interpreted as a negative reflection on your company's participation in the National Industrial Security Program (NISP); it is simply a mutually beneficial action taken to avoid expenditures incurred by your company and the U.S. Government to maintain your FCL. If in the future, a Government Contracting Agency or cleared contractor requires classified services from your organization; your facility can be responsored and processed for an FCL. If you have any questions regarding this correspondence, please contact Industrial Security Representative Mary Johnson for this action at (703) 550-5821 or via email at Mary.Johnson@dss.mil. Sincerely,
Betsy A. Jackson Betsy A. Jackson Field Office Chief
cc: Mr. James Reed, Facility Security Officer (FSO)