DOD to Refine Security Review, Rating Process for Defense Contractors
The Defense Department’s Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency will revise its security review and rating process for cleared defense contractors, beginning Sept. 1, the agency said. The new process “incorporates best practices from previous security review models” while “identifying risks…
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posed throughout classified contract performance,” DCSA said Aug. 16. The process will help the agency better “determine measures in place to counter potential threats, identify vulnerabilities and administrative findings, and advise the contractor on how to achieve and maintain an effective security program.” DSCA said it will continue to issue a “formal” security rating for contractors -- superior, commendable, satisfactory, marginal or unsatisfactory -- to reflect their “effectiveness in protecting classified information.”