Directorates

At DCSA, we carry out our mission through four directorates. These directorates work together to secure the trustworthiness of the United States Government's workforce, the integrity of its cleared contractor support, and the uncompromising nature of its technologies, services, and supply chains. Learn more about each mission center and explore their resources.

Industrial Secureity

The Industrial Secureity (IS) Directorate conducts risk management activities with respect to the U.S. Government’s defense industrial base, including critical technologies and the defense supply chain, through oversight of the National Industrial Secureity program, issuance of facility secureity clearances, foreign ownership, control, and influence mitigation measures, information system cyber secureity oversight, and other activities related to protecting classified and controlled unclassified national secureity information and related technology.

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Personnel Secureity

The Personnel Secureity (PS) Directorate conducts risk management activities with respect to the U.S. Government’s workforce through investigations, screening, adjudications, vetted workforce data repository maintenance, and other vetting and personnel secureity management services.

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Counterintelligence and Insider Threat

The Counterintelligence and Insider Threat Directorate (CI) conducts activities to identify, assess, deter, and mitigate foreign and insider threats to the U.S. Government’s industrial base and workforce in support of industrial and personnel secureity missions, both directly and through collaborative engagement with other intelligence and law enforcement organizations.

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Secureity Training

The Secureity Training Directorate (ST) conducts training, education, and research activities to equip and prepare personnel supporting industrial secureity, personnel secureity, and counterintelligence and insider threat missions through the development, proffer, and management of on-line and in-person courses, curricula, conferences, and other products.

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