Tools and guides for Facility Security Officers
Free, independent resources for people who manage security clearances and reporting. Each one points back to its source. This is not an official government site.
What do you need to do?
- Understand the clearance process Follow a clearance from the job requirement through investigation, decision, access and debrief: who owns each step, and DCSA's current processing times. Clearance process maps →
- Get or keep a facility clearance See how a company is sponsored, what DCSA needs in the first 20 days, and where KMP clearances and FOCI review fit, then check your readiness before sponsorship. Facility clearance map →
- Find reporting requirements Answer two questions to reach the rules that apply to you: SEAD 3 for Government or cleared industry (with DCSA ISL 2021-02 and 32 CFR §117.8), or Public Trust. Reporting requirements →
- Research DOHA decisions Explore 10,627 published DOHA clearance decisions by adjudicative guideline and outcome, each linked to the decision itself. Describes past decisions; does not predict a case. Adjudication Atlas →
- Prepare a DD-254 Draft a DD Form 254 in your browser, check it for internal inconsistencies and export the official PDF. Your work stays on your machine. DD-254 Interactive →
- SourcedPages cite their authority: 32 CFR Part 117, SEAD 3 and SEAD 4, DCSA guidance and the published decisions.
- PrivateNo accounts, no tracking cookies, nothing collected. The tools run in your browser.
- IndependentNot an official DoD, DCSA, ODNI or DOHA product, and not legal advice. Follow your CSA, agency and contract instructions.
More resources and work in progress
Projects & development →Adverse Information Assistant
Develops a complete, candid adverse-information self-report package, so nothing required is left out. Source code for people comfortable running it themselves.
View on GitHub ↗FSO Knowledge Desk
A wiki of 35 common FSO forms and questions with official form links. Shows the 12 answers the maintainer has reviewed and accepted; 23 more are in review and not shown.
Open the wiki →Projects & development
All 16 repositories behind the toolkit, grouped by area and labeled by availability: public tools, open-source code, internal work and archived projects.
See the projects →Looking for the list of all projects? It now has its own page: Projects & development.
About FSOtools
Built by Darin Adams for the FSO community. The guides and the Atlas draw on one governed evidence library of official sources, with validated, approval-gated releases. FSOtools is independent: nothing here is an official position of any agency.
Spotted an error?
Every page has a Report a correction link at the bottom. It opens an email to [email protected] with the page named in the subject.
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