Working for DCSA
At DCSA, you'll use your skills to protect America's trusted workforce, trusted workspaces, and classified information. By helping build and oversee our various services and applications, training opportunities, and protecting our evolving threats to national security - you'll be on the frontline with us.
Where We Work
DCSA Headquarters is located on Marine Corps Base Quantico, Virginia, near Washington, DC. The agency also maintains offices on United States Army Base, Fort Meade, in Fort Meade, Maryland, and houses the Federal Investigations Processing Center in Boyers, Pennsylvania. DCSA operates several regional and field offices across the United States, with regional headquarters in Farmers Branch, Texas; Andover, Massachusetts; Alexandria, Virginia; and San Diego, California.
To improve work-life balance, DCSA offers workplace flexibility at each of these locations, including situational telework and various work schedule options. These offerings are tailored to mission requirements and designed to enhance workforce efficiency and foster emergency preparedness.
Explore Your Career Path: Roles at DCSA
DCSA offers interesting and challenging work for people with an interest in contributing to the security of the United States.
DCSA’s Personnel Vetting closely examines people affiliated with the federal government (military, civilian, contractors, consultants, etc.) to ensure they possess the requisite judgment, reliability, and trustworthiness for their position.
Associated Careers:
Personnel Vetting Specialists
Background Investigators
Adjudicators
Information Technology (IT) Professionals
Our Personnel Vetting Mission
DCSA oversees the protection of classified U.S. Government and foreign government information, technologies, and material entrusted to cleared industry.
Associated Careers:
Industrial Security Representatives
Industrial Security Policy Specialists
Information Systems Security Professionals
Our Industrial Security Mission
DCSA coordinates with U.S. intelligence, security, and law enforcement counterparts to identify, assess, and disrupt foreign intelligence entity threats to the agency, the trusted workforce and the cleared national industrial base.
Associated Careers:
Counterintelligence (CI) Specialists and Analysts
Insider Threat Professionals
Our Counterintelligence Mission
Security Training provides security products and services to ensure maximal human performance in credibility assessment, industrial security, information security, insider threat, personnel vetting, physical security and special access program missions through training, education, quality assurance and research.
Associated Careers:
Center for Development of Security Excellence (CDSE) Professionals
National Center for Credibility Assessment (NCCA) Professionals
Our Security Training Mission
DCSA also has jobs in support roles in such fields as acquisitions, cyber security, financial management, public affairs, HR, and administration.
All our positions are covered under the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System (DCIPS) and are in the Excepted Service under 10 U.S.C. 1601.