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home > February, 2007 issue > article
Protecting DOD’s overseas bases
By Dawn S. Onley
Editor
The Office of Personnel Management and the State Department have teamed up to process security clearances at Defense Department installations abroad.
The overseas investigative initiative was launched to speed the often lengthy process of security clearance investigations, to comply with the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004. Donald Reid, senior coordinator for security infrastructure with State’s Bureau of Diplomatic Security, and Kathy L. Dillaman, associate director of OPM’s Federal Investigative Services Division, put the partnership together.
“Identifying a talented pool of candidates overseas who are qualified to perform security clearance investigations was the cornerstone to this innovative solution,” James C. Onusko, the State Department’s director of personnel security, told the American Forces Press Service.
The candidates the plan will draw on are unemployed family members of diplomats assigned to embassies and consulates worldwide.
Many of those family members have investigative experience, Onusko said.
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