{"id":10907,"date":"2019-06-24T17:55:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T17:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/uncategorized\/2019\/06\/24\/security-clearance-agency-gets-a-new-name-same-priorities\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:17:27","slug":"security-clearance-agency-gets-a-new-name-same-priorities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/federaltimes\/management\/2019\/06\/24\/security-clearance-agency-gets-a-new-name-same-priorities\/","title":{"rendered":"Security clearance agency gets a new name, same priorities"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Department of Defense\u2019s Defense Security Service has been rebranded as the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, the agencies announced June 24. The change comes as part of preparations to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.federaltimes.com\/management\/2019\/04\/25\/trump-transfers-background-investigation-power-to-pentagon\/\" target=_blank>move the federal government\u2019s background investigation functions<\/a> out of the Office of Personnel Management and into the DoD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DSS had previously been responsible for the industrial security mission of the federal government with a workforce of about 2,000 personnel, and those operations will continue under the new DCSA, a senior defense official told reporters at a June 24 roundtable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Over the next three months, DoD and OPM plan to set up a transfer of all personnel currently working at the National Background Investigations Bureau \u2014 currently a part of OPM \u2014 to DCSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe are on the early stages of executing a very detailed plan to transfer NBIB personnel, assets and resources to DoD, to DCSA. These transfers will be completed by Oct. 1,\u201d the senior defense official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As part of that transfer, Charles Phalen, who currently serves as the director of NBIB, will take over as acting director of DCSA and will hold a dual appointment between the DoD and OPM until a permanent DCSA director is named.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOn the 29th of September, right before the beginning of the fiscal year, all of the NBIB staff employees will become DoD employees,\u201d a senior administration official said at the June 24 roundtable. \u201cWe believe that this is going to be pretty seamless.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to that official, though employees will be moved under DoD authority, they will by and large have the same work experience they did prior to the transition to DCSA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cOther than maybe one person who\u2019s going to spend a lot of time driving between Quantico and downtown Washington, everybody should be working where they\u2019re working today and, except for a handful of leadership positions, working for the person they\u2019re working for today,\u201d the administration official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Employees will move from positions covered under Title 5 of U.S. Code to positions covered under Title 10, but the defense official said that past experience with such transitions within the DoD has shown that it shouldn\u2019t cause too much turmoil.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019re fortunate that we\u2019re involved in this process with the part of the government that runs personnel: OPM. So we have all the right people that understand personnel systems,\u201d the defense official said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAll folks that have competitive service tenure where they sit now will retain that. 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