Defense Security Service

Not to be confused with Diplomatic Security Service.

The Defense Security Service (DSS) is a federal security agency of the United States Department of Defense (DoD). Within areas of DoD responsibility, DSS is tasked with facilitating personnel security investigations, supervising industrial security, and performing security education and awareness training. DSS is an authorized Federal Security Agency. Industrial Security Representatives and Information System Security Professionals are credentialed government agents. Originally known as the Defense Investigative Service (DIS), DIS was established in 1972.^[1] DSS changed from DIS in 1999.

For fiscal year 2008, DSS had 621 authorized civilian employees. Of those, about 350 are Industrial Security Representatives, responsible for about 12,000 industry facilities under DSS jurisdiction.^[2] DSS Industrial Security Representatives and Information System Security Professionals are credentialed Special Agents. Stanley Sims, the Director of DSS, retired in 2016. He is now the Director of Security of the foreign owned (Canadian) defense contractor, CGI.

In November 2004, investigators from DSS were transferred to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM). This move consolidated the vast majority of Federal government personnel background investigations within OPM. DSS still processes industrial clearance requests for the DoD,^[3] and acts as the liaison to the OPM for the DoD.^[1]

The Defense Security Service is not to be confused with the U.S. Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) of the State Department. The special agents of the Diplomatic Security Service are sworn federal law enforcement agents.

References

1 2 "About DSS – History". Retrieved 2012-06-21.
↑ "DSS Fact Sheet". Retrieved 2007-12-08.
↑ "About DSS". Retrieved 2007-12-08.

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