scope:

Purpose

a. To establish policies and procedures to ensure that acceptance and retention of personnel in the Armed Forces, acceptance and retention of civilian employees in the Department of Defense (DoD), and granting members of the Armed Forces, DoD civilian employees, DoD contractors, and other affiliated persons access to classified information are clearly consistent with the interests of national security.

b. This Regulation:

(1) Establishes DoD personnel security policies and procedures;

(2) Sets forth the standards, criteria and guidelines upon which personnel security determinations shall be based;

(3) Prescribes the kinds and scopes of personnel security investigations required;

(4) Details the evaluation and adverse action procedures by which personnel security determinations shall be made; and

(5) Assigns overall program management responsibilities.

Applicability

a. This Regulation implements the Department of Defense Personnel Security Program and takes precedence over all other departmental issuances affecting that program.

b. All provisions of this Regulation apply to DoD civilian personnel, members of the Armed Forces, excluding the Coast Guard in peacetime, contractor personnel and other personnel who are affiliated with the Department of Defense except that the unfavorable administrative action procedures pertaining to contractor personnel requiring access to classified information are contained in DoD 5220.22-R (reference (b)) and in DoD Directive 5220.6 (reference (c)).

c. The policies and procedures which govern the National Security Agency are prescribed by Public Laws 88-290 and 86-36, Executive orders 10450 and 12333, DoD Directive 5210.45. Director of Central Intelligence Directive (DCID) 1/14 (references (e), (f), (g), (h), (i), and (l) respectively). And regulations of the National Security Agency.

d. Under combat conditions or other military exigencies, an authority in paragraph A, Appendix F, may waive such provisions of this regulation as the circumstances warrant.