# Six year PR submission window only for contractors? **URL:** \ **Category:** SECURITY CLEARANCE Q&A\ **Created:** [December 31, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/six-year-pr-submission-window-only-for-contractors/2626 "2017-12-31T02:30:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sbusquirrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/sbusquirrel/32/34_2.png) [@sbusquirrel](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/sbusquirrel)\ **Post date:** [December 31, 2017, 2:30am UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/six-year-pr-submission-window-only-for-contractors/2626/1 "2017-12-31T02:30:36Z")
About a year ago, DSS said that the five-year periodic update requirement for contractors would be temporarily extended to six years: > Effective immediately, DSS will submit Tier 5 Periodic Reinvestigations (PRs) for industry personnel six years after the date of the previous investigation rather than at the five-year mark to the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) of the Office of Personnel Management. **This change in periodicity will be reevaluated prior to December 31, 2017.** _(originally posted on 1/6/2017)_ Does this also apply to government personnel? Also, I did not see anything on the [DSS PSMO-I website](http://www.dss.mil/psmo-i/) about any reevaluation of the new policy. ---
**Author:** ![Marko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/marko/32/103_2.png) [@Marko](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/Marko)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/six-year-pr-submission-window-only-for-contractors/2626/2 "2018-01-03T18:10:10Z")
DSS posted on 12/22 that the current policy remains in effect until notified otherwise. It is up to each agency as to whether they want to adopt the same policy or continue with the 5 year cycles, and I would bet most are doing PRs at five. ---
**Author:** ![sbusquirrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/sbusquirrel/32/34_2.png) [@sbusquirrel](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/sbusquirrel)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 6:40pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/six-year-pr-submission-window-only-for-contractors/2626/3 "2018-01-03T18:40:09Z")
> [@Marko](#): > > It is up to each agency as to whether they want to adopt the same policy or continue with the 5 year cycles, and I would bet most are doing PRs at five. Does this part of your reply refer to government employees? ---
**Author:** ![Marko](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/marko/32/103_2.png) [@Marko](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/Marko)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2018, 6:55pm UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/six-year-pr-submission-window-only-for-contractors/2626/4 "2018-01-03T18:55:04Z")
Yes it does, DSS policy applies to industry only. ---
**Author:** ![sbusquirrel](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/sbusquirrel/32/34_2.png) [@sbusquirrel](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/u/sbusquirrel)\ **Post date:** [January 4, 2018, 1:07am UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/six-year-pr-submission-window-only-for-contractors/2626/5 "2018-01-04T01:07:26Z")
Thanks. Although I have heard a couple of stories of government employees whose investigations did get out of scope. In fact some have speculated that part of the reason for the backlog was a crackdown on this wink-and-a-nod arrangement where government employees were not having their investigations and/or polygraphs updated on time, and this added a fairly large number of cases to an already saturated system.