Stacey Dixon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, said the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has come up with guidelines and standards to improve the personnel vetting process as part of the implementation of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 framework.
“We revised the investigative standards and issued new performance management standards with measures and metrics to ensure that activities and services meet desired outcomes,” Dixon, a 2023 Wash100 awardee, told members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence during a hearing on March 29.
She said ODNI expects to release later this spring the updated National Training Standards for background investigators and security adjudicators in accordance with the goals of TW 2.0 and is finalizing the approval process for information collection related to personnel vetting questionnaire forms.
Dixon cited the introduction of a continuous vetting capability, which she said has helped ODNI identify adverse information in real time.
“ODNI has now certified 54 departments and agencies with national security sensitive populations as having compliant personnel security programs that are able to implement expanded capabilities through a combination of automated record checks and agency-specific information,” she noted.
Dixon told lawmakers about the role of industry in advancing changes to the vetting process.
“Industry has advocated for the elimination of periodic reinvestigations, reciprocal treatment of clearances, a single uniform policy structure, and a reengineered approach to personnel vetting processes,” she said.
