SCHOOL THESIS

holders current backgrounds, this technology will assist in determining if personnel are
loyal, trustworthy, reliable, and of good character.
In 2013, an ACES
pilot test with a sample of 3,370 Army service members, civilian
employees, and contractor personnel demonstrated that ACES was able to
identify 731 individuals with previously unreported derogatory
information (21.7 percent of the tested population), prompting 176
reinvestigations to resolve or adjudicate that derogatory information. Of
this group, 99 individuals had serious derogatory information (e.g.,
financial issues, domestic abuse, drug abuse, or prostitution). Based on the
results of this test, the Army revoked the clearances of 55 of these
individuals and suspended the access of the remaining 44. 171
Another PERSEREC implementation is the Insider Risk Evaluation and Audit
Tool “designed to help the user gauge an organization’s relative vulnerability to insider
threats.” 172 The tool is comprised of
six categories of internal preventative or mitigating management activities
and the selection of evaluation and audit questions in each category is
based on the authors’ distillation of empirical analysis from a relatively
large number of insider cases, academic research, and organizational
consultations on insider challenges. 173
The six functional areas are:
• Policies and Practices
• Recruitment Methods
• Pre-employment Screening
• Effective Training and Education
• Continuing Evaluation and Policy Implementation
• Management Intervention 174
171 Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence, Internal Review of the Washington Navy Yard
Shooting, 14.
172 Defense Personnel Security Research Center, Insider Risk Evaluation and Audit Tool (PP 09–03),
August 2009, http://www.dhra.mil/perserec/reports/pp09-03.pdf, 1.
173 Ibid.
174 Ibid.
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