Defense Security Service

Capital Region Office (IOFC)

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)