Sandra Langley

• Provide oversight for the DoD systems within the National Background Investigation System (NBIS) portfolio to include the Defense Information System for Security (DISS), Secure Web-Based Fingerprint Transmission (SWFT), Defense Central Index of Investigations (DCII), and Mirador.
• Responsibilities:
• Oversee the DCII and Mirador product owners to carry out stakeholder engagement, eliciting system requirements, release planning, and system operations.
• Serve as the DISS Product Manager with oversight of the contract support team. Define system development priorities, evaluate capability gaps, lead stakeholder engagement, elicit system requirements, manage program risks, and monitor helpdesk trends.
• Oversee program planning and evaluation for the DoD personnel security systems. Monitor for efficiencies, risks, schedule delays and impacts to the mission.
• Lead workgroups and tiger teams with action officers from across the Military Departments, Defense Agencies, OPM, and DNI to address policy and procedural issues as they arise.
• Elicit subject matter expertise from across the mission areas to inform decisions and influence the Federal posture.
• Expertise in the budget and contracting strategy to sustain system operations through the incremental development and transition of capabilities to NBIS as forecasted through FY25.
• Build agility to mitigate risks with development or operational delays associated with the complexities of NBIS. NBIS will replace 88 applications used in background investigations, 4 applications in DISS, and 2 applications in Mirador.
• Advanced proficiency with interpreting and applying the administrative laws, policies, and regulations that govern DoD Personnel Security Programs. This includes DoDI 5200.02; DoDM 5200.02; DoDI 5210.45; DoDD 5210.42; DoDI 5200.46; DoDI 1000.13; EO 10450; EO 12968; EO 12829; EO 13526; EO 13499; EO 13549; and gaining experience with the emerging Trusted Workforce 2.0 guidance.
• Expertise in the interdependencies between DoD personnel security mission areas of background investigations; adjudication for national security, suitability, and credentialing (SSC); due process; reciprocity; continuous vetting; insider threat; and subject management of access to classified materials, cleared visits, and reporting of foreign contacts or travel.
• Expertise with analyzing, planning, and implementing Federal and DoD goals within the various mission areas.
• Expertise in written and oral communications at various levels with Federal and DoD stakeholders on personnel security matters.
• Accomplishments:
• Volunteered in September 2020 to provide expertise gained in data transition and management to the NBIS data management and analytics division with the sudden departure of key GG-15 managers.
• Led 3 contract support teams to coordinate with business managers and data subject matter experts to map determination elements to meet initial implementation goals for VRO to use NBIS to provide continuous vetting services to the Department of Energy.
• Established methodical approach to evaluate and map data elements from data source to target based on data elements being held across multiple systems.
• Collaborated with the Chief Data Office to charter a data standards and mapping work group to bring governance and discipline to the data migration and management efforts.
• Implemented DNI guidance in DISS for SEAD-3 Reporting Requirements and SEAD-4 Adjudicative Guidelines.
• Under my leadership, DISS met the timelines agreed upon by the DCSA business owners in CAS/R/NBIS, OUSD(I&S), DNI and OMB SSC Performance Accountability Committee.
• DoD represents approximately 70% of the Federal workforce and is the Executive Agency for the cleared Industrial workforce for 35 Federal Agencies.
• Oversight of the Mirador implementation of interfaces with DNI to expand the law enforcement data sources used by the VRO for continuous vetting of the DoD population.
• Oversight of the DCII migration to cloud services to address security risks and adopt NBIS tools.
• Led Federal Agencies to adopt read-only access to DISS for improved visibility of adjudication and access determinations to inform reciprocity decisions.
• Implemented system capabilities and interfaces in DISS to shutoff JPAS effective March 31, 2021.
• This was the culmination of efforts across multiple years. This was the final increment to shutoff JCAVS and all interfaces that fed personnel security data to other Military Department, DoD Agency, Intelligence Community and Federal systems.
• Led the transition of the DCII, DISS, iIRR, Mirador and SWFT from the DMDC to DCSA effective October 1, 2020.
• Assisted with contract transition between agencies.
• Oversight of system reviews and transition of ATO under NBIS PMO.
• Implemented new processes and improved cybersecurity posture for each system.
• Executed the budget and outlined inherited risks with the program transition.

• Program Manager for the DISS. Assist in oversight of the Personnel Security Assurance portfolio to include the DISS, SWFT, DCII, JPAS, iIRR, and Mirador.
• Responsibilities:
• Serve as the DISS Program Manager with operational oversight responsibilities.
• Define system development priorities, lead stakeholder engagement, elicit system requirements, manage program risks, monitor helpdesk trends, and lead system response teams to address issues as they arise.
• Serve as the Contracting Officer’s Representative for the Personnel Security Assurance contract.
• Define tasks, priorities and timelines for the contract support team.
• Monitor for compliance with DMDC policies and standard operating procedures.
• Inform the DISS acquisition strategy and maintain acquisition documentation.
• Elicit budget input from across the Personnel Security Assurance mission to sustain system operations.
• Advanced proficiency with interpreting and applying the administrative laws, policies, and regulations that govern DoD Personnel Security Programs.
• Collaborate with DHRA policy team to identify policy gaps and propose changes to meet mission.
• Advanced proficiency in the DoD personnel security mission areas of background investigations; adjudication of national security, suitability, and HSPD-12 credentials; continuous evaluation; due process; reciprocity; and access to classified materials or facilities.
• Advanced proficiency in interactions with DoD SES leadership at OUSD(I), Defense Security Enterprise Advisory Group, DoD Consolidated Adjudications Facility, Military Department personnel security and adjudication staff, and the 4th Estate Agencies.
• Led workgroups and tiger teams with representation from across the Military Departments, Defense Agencies, and OUSD(I) to address policy and procedural issues as they arise.
• Represent DMDC in meetings with OUSD(I) and DoD CAF to provide progress reports to operationalize DISS.
• Implementation goal to incrementally shutoff JPAS capabilities and interfaces with the full transition to DISS.
• O Transition from 6 Case Adjudication Tracking System (CATS) instances in use by the DoD CAF to a single, enterprise instance in DISS.
• O Transition the Military Departments, 4th Estate Agencies, and Industrial Security base to adopt use of the JVS subject management and visit capabilities in DISS.
• O Develop Appeals module to support due process.
• O Shutoff inbound and outbound interfaces with the full data migration from JPAS to DISS.
• Analyze the operational readiness of the DISS capabilities and infrastructure.
• Develop a comprehensive implementation road map for DISS.
• Expertise in written and oral communications at various levels within DoD on personnel security matters.
• Accomplishments:
• Implemented data analytics to monitor process efficiencies and established data quality team to identify data integrity issues for correction.
• Oversight of analysis, development and implementation of electronic business rules to meet the DoD CAF and DNI mission goals to reduce the backlog of adjudicative cases
• EAdjudication of Tier 1 and Tier 3 low-risk cases
• EAdjudication as a service to NBIB for Federal Agencies
• Led the development of a comprehensive JPAS-to-DISS Transition Plan
• Analyzed and identified functional gaps for investigation requests, eligibility determinations, incidents, access, visit, reporting, and interfaces
• Outlined assumptions, constraints, risks, and estimate for development, testing and delivery
• Defined phased approach to data synchronization, data migration and implementation
• Delivered Appeals module to automate due process workflows.
• Completed the transition of DoD CAF, Military Departments, DoD 4th Estate Agencies, and the Industrial Security workforce to DISS in September 2018.
• O Transitioned all DoD CAF divisions to use of DISS CATS
• Shutoff and decommissioned 9 instance of CATS
• Shutoff JCAVS application in JPAS
• Fully provisioned and transitioned user population to DISS JVS
• Developed training documents, presentations and videos for the Military Departments, DoD 4th Estate Agencies, and the PSMO-Industry to use to train-the-trainer for onboarding to DISS JVS.
• Operationalized DISS in December 2016 with DoD CAF / WHS 4th Estate Division as the first adopters.
• O Led effort to analyze system capabilities and identify gaps with program transfer
• Stood-up of DISS applications within the DMDC-managed infrastructure and security boundaries.
• O Integrated DISS into DMDC development, operations, change management, security, and helpdesk processes
• Assisted with the transition of DISS from DLA to DMDC effective October 1, 2015.
• Responsible for knowledge and program document transfer.
• Assisted with contract management between agencies.
• Oversight of system reviews and transition of ATO to DMDC.
• Identified inherited risks with budget shortfalls.
• Led hiring efforts to fill 9 billets.

Led civilian and contract teams to implement applications with data platform and operationalize API to ingest and deliver data to Military Depratments.

Leading conversations with Military Departments to transition from accepting flat-files to inform data sets and decision to API strategy to view or receive data near real-time.

Led data governance through implementing access controls, conducting data quality analysis, initiatives to address missing or discrepant data, and defining policies for data operations.

Delivered API services to Military Acessions to submit SF86 and to receive investigative product.

Expertise is supporting senstive data and assessing against Intelligence Community protection requirements.