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Your security clearance paperwork (SF-86) from your company will be electronically forwarded to the DoD’s Personnel Security Management Office-Industry (PSMO-I). You may also be able to submit your own security paperwork electronically through OPM’s e-QIP (Electronic Questionnaires for Investigations Processing) system. PSMO-I personnel security specialists (adjudicators) will review your SF-86/eQIP for accuracy and completeness. If everything looks good, they will grant you an INTERIM SECRET or INTERIM TOP SECRET security clearance and then forward your SF-86/eQIP to Federal Investigative Services (FIS) to initiate a request for the required level of background investigation from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). If your SF-86/eQIP is sloppy, inaccurate or you’ve omitted requested information, your security paperwork will be rejected by PSMO-I and returned to your contractor’s security office for revisions. It’s important to fill out your SF-86/eQIP correctly on the first submission. Otherwise, you’re adding a lot of extra time to the completion date of your final investigation. If your SF-86/eQIP is accurate and complete as deemed by PSMO-I’s adjudicators, it is still possible to not be granted an INTERIM SECRET or INTERIM TOP SECRET security clearance. PSMO-I adjudicators adhere to special guidelines when deciding to grant INTERIM security clearances. If your SF-86/eQIP indicates that you fall under 1 or more of these guidelines, you won’t be granted an INTERIM clearance. So, it’s important to know how to fill out the SF-86/eQIP. It’s important to know what to disclose and what does not needlessly need to be disclosed. You may actually hurt yourself by disclosing needless information on your SF-86/eQIP.

DISCO enters “Loss of Jurisdiction” when: 1) During the investigative or adjudicative process, the person’s case is terminated because he no longer requires a clearance. 2) An interim eligibility had been issued then withdrawn until the final determination is rendered. Here is another article explaining the infamous 'Loss of Jurisdiction' that one will see in JPAS. This can happen due to a failed poly putting an 'Incident Report' (red flag) in your file and screw you like a hooker. What is the Joint Personnel Adjudication System (JPAS)? Serves as a master repository that performs comprehensive personnel security management of all DOD employees, military personnel, civilians and DOD contractors. Composed of two sub-systems: o Joint Adjudication Management System (JAMS) - Record eligibility determinations. Looking for online definition of CAF or what CAF stands for? CAF is listed in the World's largest and most authoritative dictionary database of abbreviations and acronyms The Free Dictionary.

OPM’s Federal Investigative Services Division (FISD) will conduct the necessary electronic record checks and assign your case to an investigator if necessary. If you are in-process for a TOP SECRET clearance, you will be interviewed by an investigator. If you are in-process for a SECRET clearance and have no background issues, you’re fine. You will not meet with an investigator. If you have issues, you’ll be contacted by an investigator for an interview. Forget about CONFIDENTIAL level clearances; the U.S. government rarely issues those low level clearances anymore.

Eligibility Determinations

The Joint Personnel Adjudication System (JPAS) maintains DoD personnel security clearance eligibilities. Listed below are eligibilities with their definition for industry and the procedures for the FSO. When eligibility is changed, an Eligibility Change Notification is sent to any Security Management Office (SMO) with an active owning or servicing relationship with the individual's Person Categories. An active owning relationship must exist in order for servicing SMOs to receive notifications.

Eligibility information includes the level of eligibility adjudicated by the government central adjudication facility (CAF). The FSO cannot change this information but if the FSO believes it is incorrect, please notify PSMO-I via the Research, Recertify, Upgrade (RRU) function. Remember, the employee may have eligibility at a higher level than what is recorded at your facility due to previous employment or military service. The employee may not be granted access to classified information at a level higher level than the facility clearance level.

Prior to indoctrinating access, the FSO should verify clearance eligibility by viewing information contained in the Adjudication Summary. This will ensure the individual's eligibility supports the access. If there is a question on eligibility levels, contact the DoD Security Services Center for advice on appropriate definitions or procedures.

Interim Secret Clearances

An interim Secret determination is based on a review and assessment of information contained in records or systems available to PSMO-I and the applicant's Questionnaire for National Security Positions, SF86. An interim determination will permit the individual to have access to most of the classified information needed to perform his or her duties. The interim determination is made concurrently with the requesting of the investigation from OPM and generally remains in effect until an investigation is completed, at which time the applicant is considered for a final eligibility.

In accordance with Executive Order 12968, 'Access to Classified Information,' August 2, 1995, and Department of Defense (DoD) Regulation 5200.2- R, 'Personnel Security Program,' January 1987, an official Personnel Security Investigation (PSI) will be completed on the applicant so that PSMO-I may obtain the necessary information and relevant facts upon which to base a determination for final eligibility. Upon completion of the required investigation, a final security clearance determination will be made as quickly as possible and the FSO will be notified through the JPAS process.

Interim Top Secret Clearances

When an individual is submitted for a Top Secret clearance, there are two ways to qualify for an interim TS eligibility:

Individual already has a valid eligibility of Secret or Confidential and favorable review of the investigation request
If there is no valid Secret or Confidential when PSMO-I receives a request for Top Secret, PSMO-I submits the investigation request to OPM. OPM will send the Advanced National Agency Check (NAC) results when completed and PSMO-I will review the NAC to determine interim Top Secret eligibility.

Eligibility Pending

Indicates the investigation request has been received and reviewed for potentially posting an Interim Determination. When the requirements for an Interim determination have not been met, PSMO-I will post 'Eligibility Pending' and defer adjudication until the completion of the requested investigation.

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In plain English, what this means is this: In the past, the former DISCO would have posted “Interim Clearance Denied”. This means that your case has some issues and those issues need to be addressed by an investigator before any type of Interim Clearance can be granted. If your case is “clean” and has no issues, you will be granted an Interim Clearance. If your case is “dirty” or has some issues, you simply have to wait for your entire investigation to be formally completed. OPM-FIS has to send the official Report of Investigation (ROI) to DOD CAF or your agency’s security department before a final decision can be made.

As stated earlier, the entry “Interim Clearance Denied” used to be posted into JPAS. For various reasons, this entry has been replaced by the phrase of “Eligibility Pending”. People seem to think it looks and sounds better as it appears on the JPAS screen. Also, Facility Security Officers (FSOs) were being prejudiced against job applicants when this entry would appear in the JPAS system. Basically, there was a lot of crying about this phrase so it was changed…just another euphemism to make people feel better about themselves. “Eligibility Pending” still means the same thing, though……You have been denied an Interim Security Clearance!

PSMO-I does not respond to verbal inquiries from applicants regarding their interim determinations. If JPAS reflects Eligibility Pending, the applicants may contact Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC), ATTN: Privacy Act Office, P.O. Box 168, Boyers, PA 16020-0168 for information regarding their

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