The Division of Personnel Security and Access Control (DPSAC) within the Office of Research Services (ORS) is responsible for verifying personal identity, validating suitability, conducting background checks, authorizing facility access and issuing ID badges for NIH personnel. Its mission is to simplify the identity verification and badging process for new and existing NIH personnel and to implement the Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) at NIH.
DPSAC is the lead organization responsible for implementing the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) process (including the issuance of the “smart” HHS ID badge) for NIH. In 2007, DPSAC began implementing the HSPD-12 directive by identifying NIH expiring badge holders, new employees, contractors and affiliates, and enrolling them in the PIV system. These individuals are being fingerprinted and undergoing background investigations and will be able to pick up their new badges once they become available in early 2008. The goal is to process all of the approximately 35,000 badge holders at NIH and issue them new HHS ID badges by the end of 2008. The Personal Identity Verification process, including the issuance of the new HHS ID badge, is designed to protect employees, facilities, and information, and safeguard our government resources that provide critical services to the American people.
DPSAC Assistance
Everyone at NIH who applies for a new or replacement HHS ID Badge will pass through the DPSAC Badge Enrollment Center in Building 31, Room 1B03*. Here applicants will deliver certain necessary forms and be fingerprinted, and later get photographed and be issued a new HHS ID badge. Specialists are available to answer questions about Personnel Security and Access Control and help applicants navigate through the PIV process.
* Some NIH satellite facilities will have their own Badge Enrollment Centers. Contact information for these facilities is listed under Access Control.
