I got an incident report last Oct. as a cleared employee. The incident report has stayed in my DISS account until now. No one contact me from the government either. I have the following questions:
Hereās my experience with this which (fortunately) is all second-hand: that incident report will lie there like some kind of hibernating bear as long as you stay at your current company working for the same customer.
If you try to go to a different company, or maybe even try to work on a different contract while still at the same company, it will wake up and be in a very nasty mood.
This is based on several cases involving former coworkers, some of whom had no idea about the incident report until they tried to get a new job. Then they had to find an employer willing to sponsor them for a whole new investigation.
Can anyone add some info here on what @clearance2017 can do while heās still at that company?
In this case, could my clearance stay active while it is transferred to a different company, even though a new investigation will be invoked due to the incident report? Thank you.
I donāt know, I just know a few people who got into a jam due to unadjudicated information and/or an incident.
And just to nit pick, once you leave a company, your clearance is no longer āactiveā but you would retain your āeligibilityā (assuming the incident doesnt get in the way).
Did you talk to the security folks where you work? Maybe they have some ideas.
Def talk to them. See if there is any mitigation. That unadjudicated infoā¦saw many crossovers stopped. Normally it only requires a complete new investigation, and an adjudication.
āthemā: do you mean the company or the government? The incident is filed in my DISS account with the government.
Are you still at the client site? I would talk to their security office on if and when it woukd go away, how to mitigate it. Kind of sad but the truth is contractors are written up faster and for less than other government employees.
They refuse to tell me what it is, not to mention anything else said in your post.
That sounds utterly ridiculous, bordering on the Kafkaesque.
(I donāt really know what that means but I do know he wrote about frustrating and maddening encounters with bureaucrats and such)
Agreed. How can anyone learn to improve unless they know? Ive never heard of a violation where they cant tell you what you did. That is normally a known known. If they have an IG I would go there. How do you know not to do something again if you dont know what it is?
I have sent a request to DCSA for a copy of the incident report. Do they have a time limit to fulfill my request based on the law?
That I dont know. But cannot understand why it would be hidden from you.
Hi there, former Special Security Officer (SSO) here. No, they do not have a real time-frame to give you a response back. Iām assuming that you, in conjunction with your Industrial Security Officer (IS0) have already sent your āstatement or reasonsā response(s) back on DISS with documentation showing that the said āincidentā is in a status of resolved.
It takes DCSA a while to close out incidents. If youāve already submitted your response data just sit tight at your current employer (if you can) and keep your nose squeaky clean. Depending on the severity of the āincidentā in question DCSA will take one of two routes: #1 - they will accept the data that your ISO placed into DISS or they will #2 - require you to face a new investigation. Your sponsor / ISO doesnāt really need to do anything to spark movement from DCSA. They definitely have you in their funnel of folks to get to, but often-times it takes a while.
I had one guy under my SMO who had an incident reported before he came to my duty station on assignment. Yeah, he could do his primary job, but he did all non-class work assigned by his supervisor in a non-class area in my facility. It took DISS about 11 months to accept this young mans reply to the SOR and reinstate his clearance. He was lucky, as DCSA did not require him to get a new investigation. Most of that was due to me making the guy do additional courses on the side for upload by my office - which conveyed to DCSA that the guy learned from his mistake and that he had a strong desire to maintain his eligibility to IC information. I am sure that you will be fine. Now itās just a waiting game.
No. I didnāt get anything from DISS. I even donāt know what incident report was filed in the system. I asked other FSOs to look into my account, but was told nobody could see the incident report except the one who put the incident report into the system.
So, my question is that, when you sent a request to the government and took his account over upon hiring him, are you able to see the incident report in his security clearance account?
Now thatā¦is a smoking hot SSO! Kudos to you for knowing how to mitigate honest mistakes and negligence. We all do dumb things here and there. That you not only mitigated the report, but grew the employee and skill setā¦but you also set the stage for this person to assist others in overcoming a lapse in decision making. The length of time clearing at the IC level should make us lean towards re-education and training. Particularly when an employee demonstrates humility and contrition.