As most
DPSAC News
readers are aware , the Division of Personnel Security and Access Control (DPSAC), within the Office of Research Services (NIH) is responsible for verifying personal identity, validating suitability, adjudicating background investigations, authorizing facility access and issuing ID badges for NIH employees, contractors and affiliates.
DPSAC also handles a steady stream of inquiries at its customer service desk and telephone help lines.
Everyone at NIH who requires a background investigation for their position, or who applies for a new or replacement HHS ID Badge or NIH RLA Badge will need to be processed through DPSAC.
In other words, DPSAC impacts every employee and contractor working at NIH.
Throughout the year, DPSAC's team of personnel security and badge issuance specialists carefully review thousands of cases and attend to countless details to make sure that each NIH employee, contractor and affiliate has been properly vetted before DPSAC issues him or her a PIV card [i.e., an HHS ID Badge or RLA badge].
Behind the numbers
DPSAC News reported
earlier this year
that in 2017 DPSAC staff conducted over 30,000 transactions involving enrollment, case review, adjudication and badge issuance.*
Over the next few weeks
DPSAC News
will look more closely at each of these key steps and the roles that the applicant and each DPSAC department [viz., Customer Service, Enrollment, Case Review, Access Control and Adjudication] plays in the Personal Identity Verification [PIV] process.
DPSAC coordinates its efforts with each individual entering the NIH workforce to help him/her complete the PIV process successfully so that s/he may be found suitable for employment within NIH. DPSAC’s goal is to facilitate the PIV and badge issuance process for the applicant so that s/he can have access to NIH facilities and the NIH IT systems and begin work as soon as possible, all with minimal inconvenience.
