DSS ACCESS, Volume 1, Issue 3 - Defense Security Service (DSS)

TIMELINE: Publications By the Defense Investigative Service in, from left, 1989, 1990, 1992, 1993.
1,750 were military) were transferred
from the military services to DIS for the
establishment of the PSI mission. By the
end of FY84, DSS was an entirely civilian
organization.
At the time of its standup, DIS was also assigned
responsibility to maintain the Defense Central Index
of Investigations (DCII) for the Department. At the
time, DCII was maintained on an IBM 360/40 computer
located at Fort Holabird, Md. The DCII Master Index
was composed of approximately 15 million locator
records for investigations conducted by or for DoD
investigative agencies and retained by them.
In 1977, DIS was assigned the mission of law
enforcement in detecting fraud, waste and abuse in
DoD. Unlike other new missions that remained with
the agency, this mission was transferred to the DoD
Inspector General in 1981 and the Defense Criminal
Investigative Service (DCIS) was then formed. At the
time, the criminal investigation mission under DIS
focused primarily of the theft of government property
at facilities of the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA).
A major change in the agency’s mission set occurred
in 1980 when the Industrial Security Program was
transferred from DLA to DIS. The goal was to achieve
industrial security coordination among the military
services and the Defense Agencies. To implement
the Industrial Security mission, DLA transferred 670
personnel spaces while the military services added
88 more. Shortly after the transfer, in September
1980, there were approximately 10,733 facilities in the
Defense Industrial Security Program.
The National Industrial Security Program (NISP) was
created by Executive Order 12829 in January 1993,
and was intended to replace not only the DISP, but the
industrial security programs of the Central Intelligence
Agency, the Department of Energy, and the Nuclear
Regulatory Commission. The National Industrial
Security Program Operating Manual (NISPOM) became
effective on April 1, 1995, formally implementing the
National Industrial Security Program. It was considered
the most significant change in the Industrial Security
Program in nearly 40 years.
Today, the NISPOM (revised and re-issued on February
28, 2006) serves as the basis for DSS oversight of the
program. There are approximately 13,300 facilities
cleared under the NISP and the industrial security
program forms the foundation of the agency’s current
mission set.
During the same time, DSS was providing administrative
support for the DoD Security Institute (DoDSI) located
near Richmond, Va. DoDSI trained DIS personnel security
investigators and industrial security representatives
and also offered resident and extension courses for U.S.
government employees and industry representatives.
In 1983, the Institute trained approximately 3,800
students. In 1997, Defense Reform Initiative #2 directed
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