The Personnel Vetting Program establishes the standards, criteria, and guidelines upon which trust determinations or adjudicative decisions are based for each personnel vetting domain.

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• Adverse Information Reporting
  Reviews information regarding adverse information reporting responsibilities. The short provides the opportunity to evaluate information and behaviors to determine if an incident report is appropriate and identify when and how adverse information should be reported.
   
• Continuous Vetting Awareness
  Provides a detailed overview of Continuous Vetting and addresses its policies, purpose and the role it plays in maintaining a trusted workforce.


• Continuous Vetting for Non-Sensitive Public Trust
  Provides a high-level overview of the purpose of continuous vetting (CV) for non-sensitive public trust (NSPT) positions, the policies driving the shift to CV, and the role federal agencies play in managing CV for the NSPT population.


• Counterintelligence Concerns for Adjudicators
  Provides an opportunity to practice recognition of counterintelligence concerns relevant to the performance of their job tasks and raises awareness of these issues and their importance in the context of the adjudication process.


• Elements of Federal Personnel Vetting
  Provides an overview of the 12 elements of Federal personnel vetting as described in the Federal Personnel Vetting Guidelines policy and introduces the security practitioners' role in each element.


• Federal Personnel Vetting Investigative Standards
  Provides a high-level overview of the new three-tiered investigative framework which aligns investigative requirements for Suitability, Fitness, National Security, and Credentialing as well as a comparison of the five-tiered and three-tiered investigative models.


• Federal Personnel Vetting Scenarios
  The Personnel Vetting Scenarios Short provides an overview of personnel vetting scenarios associated with Trusted Workforce 2.0, and the associated federal personnel vetting investigative standards.


• Personnel Vetting At A Glance
  Provides a broad overview of the Personnel Vetting models of National Security, Suitability/Fitness, and HSPD-12 Credentialing reporting responsibilities that are set forth in multiple Security Executive Agent Directives and Executive Orders.


• Reciprocity in the Personnel Security Program
  Explains the importance for reciprocity in the Personnel Security Program. It emphasizes the reason for reciprocity, as well as a review of the numerous national and DOD policies that require reciprocity.
   
• Reporting Requirements At A Glance
  Provides information on the reporting responsibilities that are set forth in Security Executive Agent Directive 3 (SEAD 3). This directive establishes the reporting requirements for all covered individuals who have access to classified information or hold a sensitive position.
   
• Reporting Requirements for the Continuous Vetting of the Trusted Workforce
  Outlines the minimum individual and third-party reporting requirements including peer, supervisory, and commander obligations mandated by Appendix C of the Federal Personnel Vetting Management Standards (PVMS).
   
• Security Review Proceedings Overview for National Security
  Provides a high-level overview of the Department of Defense Due Process and Appeals Reform (DPAR) Memorandum dated April 2023, and Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) Security Review Proceedings (SRP) implementation for military, civilian, and industry contractors requiring sensitive compartmented information (SCI) eligibility.
   
• The 13 Adjudicative Guidelines

  Explains how to perform the role of a personnel security adjudicator through a series of short format courses, each individually addressing one of the 13 Adjudicative Guidelines. Participants will make adjudicative eligibility determinations in 13 adjudicative guideline based scenarios by examining the concern, disqualifying conditions, and mitigating conditions of each guideline. They are provided feedback regarding their decisions.

  1. Adjudicative Guideline A: Allegiance to the United States
  2. Adjudicative Guideline B: Foreign Influence
  3. Adjudicative Guideline C: Foreign Preference
  4. Adjudicative Guideline D: Sexual Behavior
  5. Adjudicative Guideline E: Personal Conduct
  6. Adjudicative Guideline F: Financial Considerations
  7. Adjudicative Guideline G: Alcohol Consumption
  8. Adjudicative Guideline H: Drug Involvement
  9. Adjudicative Guideline I: Psychological Conditions
  10. Adjudicative Guideline J: Criminal Conduct
  11. Adjudicative Guideline K: Handling Protected Information
  12. Adjudicative Guideline L: Outside Activities
  13. Adjudicative Guideline M: Use of Information Technology Systems
       
• The Federal Investigative Standards
  Provides a high-level overview of the Federal Investigative Standards (FIS). This short introduces the five-tiered investigative model.