Personnel Security Activities Management System (PSAMS)/Integrated Security Management System (ISMS)
- By Grey McKenzie
- Published Wednesday 30th 2008
- Cyber Security Government Watch
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Personnel Security Activities Management
Introduction
The DHS Office of Security and each Component Security Office are responsible for vetting its’ employees and contractors to ensure that they meet mandated suitability and security clearance standards. Currently, each DHS Component maintains its own security management system to store records related to this process.
Additionally, each Component maintains a separate interface to various external systems maintained by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the National Finance Center (NFC).
The DHS Office of Security has plans to implement a web-based software solution to manage DHS personnel and administrative security case
records across the enterprise.
The ISMS system will add to the existing functionality of the case management system in use by DHS Headquarters (i.e., PSAMS), and will replace five separate systems in use at Custom and Border Protection (CBP),
Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ISMS supports the lifecycle of DHS’s personnel and administrative security cases to include capturing the data related to all aspects of suitability determination, security clearance processing, security violation tracking, secure document tracking, and Contract Security Classification Specification (DD254) production.
The DHS Office of Security and each Component Security Office are responsible for vetting its’ employees and contractors to ensure that they meet mandated suitability and security clearance standards. Currently, each DHS Component maintains its own security management system to store records related to this process.
Additionally, each Component maintains a separate interface to various external systems maintained by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the National Finance Center (NFC).
The DHS Office of Security has plans to implement a web-based software solution to manage DHS personnel and administrative security case
The ISMS system will add to the existing functionality of the case management system in use by DHS Headquarters (i.e., PSAMS), and will replace five separate systems in use at Custom and Border Protection (CBP),
Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). ISMS supports the lifecycle of DHS’s personnel and administrative security cases to include capturing the data related to all aspects of suitability determination, security clearance processing, security violation tracking, secure document tracking, and Contract Security Classification Specification (DD254) production.
