Let us manage your NISPOM requirements
With managed AFSO Solutions you can focus on your core work while we manage your NISPOM requirements.
Outsource your FSO tasks.
We understand NISPOM requirements and how to demonstrate compliance. In fact, our president, Jeff Bennett, is an experience FSO, has written many books and speaks regularly on the topic. Let us help you navigate complex NISPOM and security clearance requirements. At Thrive Analysis Group, we know NISPOM and we know FSOs. Our employees are FSOs with decades of NISPOM and FSO experience. Whether you need hourly consultation or a more long term solution, we can help.
Your Journey with Thrive Analysis Group Inc.
We understand the critical nature of your role as a Facility Security Officer (FSO), and we’re fully committed to providing the support you need across all areas of responsibility.
In assisting you, our team is prepared to perform key tasks:
- Security Clearance Processing: We can support you in managing the processing of security clearance paperwork, ensuring the thorough collection, review, and verification of relevant documents and information to maintain completeness, consistency, and accuracy. We monitor the security clearance paperwork process from the beginning initiation of the request and follow through until the final clearance is granted, offering intermittent status updates at an agreed upon frequency.
- Personnel Security Records Maintenance: Our assistance includes helping you maintain personnel security records and databases with an emphasis on quality assurance, and up-to-date recordkeeping. We start with a baseline review of your security files and offer guidance as well as completing the reorganization & maintenance on your security records designed to maintain compliance.
- Self-Inspection Support: To help you maintain compliance, we begin with a self-inspection when you bring us on and annually thereafter, ensuring all security requirements are reviewed and met effectively.
- Security Education, Training, and Awareness Programs: To support ongoing security education, we can help you implement training and awareness initiatives that keep all personnel informed and compliant with security practices.
- DoD Contract Security Classification Specifications (DD Form 254) Management: We are available to assist in preparing, tracking, and distributing DD Form 254s, whether received from government or prime contractors, or issued to subcontractors, ensuring compliance with Department of Defense standards.
- Visitor Control Functions: We offer guidance on visitor control processes, including the handling of incoming and outgoing visit requests, visitor identification verification, and access control for classified information.
- Industrial Security Troubleshooting and Reporting: We are here to verify essential report preparation and provide troubleshooting support for industrial security issues, as well as assist in addressing inquiries from government agencies and company management.
Thank you for your dedication to safeguarding national security, and we look forward to contributing to your success. Our primary goal is to support your company in maintaining a secure and compliant Security Program without the added stress of doing it alone.
Managed AFSO Solutions
- We manage your facility and personnel security clearance requirements. You provide the permissions to access NISS, DISS and NBIS and we complete your tasks Just like outsourcing HR or accounting, you can outsource AFSO services. Standardized service includes much of the following:
- Maintain personnel security clearances
- Provide NISPOM required cleared employee training
- Perfom Visit request and
- Foreign Travel reports
- Oversee NISS requirements
- Provide or update Insider Threat Program Policy
- Provide or update SEAD 3 Policy
- Develop Standard Policy and Procedures
Security Program Solutions
- Let us work with you to develop your security program to protect classified information. We assist FSOs with special tasks like building and developing programs, policies, training and other solutions. We can do the following and more:
- Develop CUI program and training
- Develop OPSEC program and training
- Develop Insider threat program and training
- Provide security training for employees and KMP
- Conduct DCSA or compliance reviews and self-inspections
For some, the FSO designation is a career track with potential growth. For others, it’s an undesired appointment, part of doing business and just another additional duty.
However, this responsibility should be taken very seriously as classified contracts depend on success. Regardless of whether desired or appointed, the FSO is key to managing classified contracts.
Why not let Thrive Analysis Group Inc manage your FSO requirements while you focus on your core capabilities. We are uniquely positioned to equip your organization with FSO solutions and services.
While you may be appointed as FSO, you should delegate FSO responsibilities to us. We provide a wide range of managed solutions starting at $550 per month, depending on the number of cleared employees. Leave FSO tasks to a trusted partner.
Our strength is compliance solutions and the following are just part of what we provide:
- Entity Eligibility Determination Processing (FCL)
- Personnel Eligibility Determination Processing
- Reviewing and submitting security clearance information into the National Industrial Security System (NISS) / NBIS and Defense Information System for Security (DISS)
- Appoint Key Management Personnel (KMP)
- Liaison between cleared facility, FSO and DCSA
- Consult the Senior Management Official, FSO and ITPSO on roles, responsibilities and required training
- Establish and post required FCL forms and documentation
- Develop and issue procedures:
- SEAD-3 Reporting
- Insider Threat Reporting
- Security Processes and Procedures
- Cleared employee briefs and training
- Self-Inspections
We provide subscription based and hourly based consultion. Subscription is a monthly rate depending on the size of the organization. Hourly rates are for special projects that require analysis and process development. See the charts below for more information.
Security Compliance
We provide tailored solutions to help defense contractors meet compliance requirements under:
- FOCI Mitigation
- ITAR / EAR
- NISPOM
- National Security Presidential Memorandum (NSPM-33)
Outsourced FSO Solutions
It’s not easy to understand the requirements for becoming a cleared defense contractor or for newly cleared companies to navigate security clearance requirements.
Security Policy Analysis
It’s not enough to be NIST or CMMC compliant or certify information systems for processing CUI and classified information. We will review your corporate policies, make recommendation, write new policies or develop programs to ensure your organization is compliant.
Contact us @ jb@thriveanalysis.com
Jeff Bennett, ISOC, ISP, SAPPC, SFPC
President and CEO
Jeff started Thrive Analysis Group to solve difficult protection problems. His vision is to provide a capability to protect sensitive information so that products have a chance to be fielded before they can be stolen, countered or copied. Under his leadership Thrive Analysis Group has worked with government and contractors to develop and implement compliance programs to protect sensitive information. He has been effective with manufactured products, process development, healthcare, research and development and defense industries.
Jeff is a security and risk management consultant who provides NISP books, training and products. Jeff has worked as both a government civilian and a defense contractor in the information protection space. He’s been assisting program managers, FSOs and small companies solve hard problems while working on classified, CUI, insider threat and controlled information projects. He’s also worked as an expert witness on security clearance issues.
Jeff is the owner of NISPOM Central and Thrive Analysis Group Inc
Services
What We Can Do For You
Our specialty is our capability to interpret requirements and how they should be implemented for your unique situation. We apply program protection, write and tailor processes, procedures and policies so that they will fit within the constraints of your enterprise.
Your enterprise is made up of many moving parts and business units, but none should stand alone. We believe each requirement should be part of the corporate body and not a stove piped solution. We conduct analyses for entity wide application so that burden and opportunities are shared:
- Corporate Policy
- Program Protection Planning
- Supply Chain Risk Management
- Criticality Analysis
- OPSEC Analysis
- Security Classification Guidance
- NISPOM Compliance
Program Protection Planning
Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM)
Criticality Analyses
NISPOM Compliance
Processes and Procedures
Cyber-SCRM