Director's Perspective
Welcome to the Office of Headquarters
Personnel Security Operations
Stephanie Scott Grimes, Director
The Office of Headquarters Personnel
Security Operations serves the Department
by providing a comprehensive Personnel
Security Program for the DOE Headquarters
complex. Our goal is to ensure that DOE
classified information and materials are
safeguarded from compromise by assuring
that only trustworthy individuals are
granted access authorizations (security
clearances). This is accomplished through
conscientious, just, and thoughtful application
of Federal rules and statutes with the
goal of ensuring that only individuals
whose character, associations, and loyalty
do not endanger the common defense are
granted access to DOE classified information
and materials.
The Office's management of access authorizations
for the population of cleared individuals
at Headquarters is coupled with the responsibility
for the classified visits program that
manages DOE and other government agency
visitors traveling to DOE sites as well
as other locations within the Government
and implementation of personal identity
verification (PIV) under Homeland Security
Presidential Directive #12 (HSPD-12).
Because of the significance of the human
factor in security vulnerabilities, the
Office of Personnel Security's goal to
protect the national security is a critical
element in the Department's overall security
strategy. The Office of Personnel Security
is committed to assuring the integrity
and dependability of each individual who
is granted access authorization.
The Office is comprised of a group of
highly skilled security professionals,
both Federal and contractor, who are dedicated
to performing their duties in a manner
that is both thorough and accurate while
being ever mindful of their stewardship
of the highly sensitive information used
to make access eligibility determinations.
We look forward to serving our DOE colleagues
and the public at large in the area of
personnel security. The Office contributes
substantially to U.S. Government personnel
security expertise and we strive to set
the personnel security standard for DOE,
in support of the vital mission of this
Department.
If you have any comments or questions
regarding the content of our web site
or our organization, please contact Stephanie
Scott Grimes, Director, Office of Headquarters
Personnel Security Operations at: Stephanie.Grimes@hq.doe.gov.
Mission
and Functions
This page was last updated on September 30, 2008
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