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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

[Docket ID: DoD–2021–OS–0062] 

Privacy Act of 1974; System of 

Records 

AGENCY: United States Central 

Command (USCENTCOM), Department 

of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice of a new system of 

records. 

SUMMARY: USCENTCOM is adding a 

new system of records entitled, 

‘‘Contract Employees Vetting and 

Arming Authorization,’’ FCENTCOM 

05. This system provides multiple 

functionalities, including providing 

registration and vetting for contract 

employees working in the USCENTCOM 

Area of Operations and authorizing 

those contract employees to bear arms 

and ammunition. 

DATES: This system of records is 

effective upon publication; however, 

comments on the Routine Uses will be 

accepted on or before August 19, 2021. 

The Routine Uses are effective at the 

close of the comment period. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

* Federal Rulemaking Portal: https://

www.regulations.gov. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. 

* Mail: DoD cannot receive written 

comments at this time due to the 

COVID–19 pandemic. Comments should 

be sent electronically to the docket 

listed above. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

docket number for this Federal Register 

document. The general policy for 

comments and other submissions from 

members of the public is to make these 

submissions available for public 

viewing on the internet at https://

www.regulations.gov as they are 

received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Evlyn Hearne, Chief, FOIA/PA, U.S. 

Central Command (CCJ6–RDF), 7115 

South Boundary Boulevard, MacDill 

AFB, FL 33621–5101, 

evlyn.a.hearne.civ@mail.mil, or at (813) 

529–6135. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

The Contract Employees Vetting and 

Arming Authorization system of records 

maintains USCENTCOM’s registration, 

investigation, and verification of 

contract employees to work for the 

command in the theater of operations. 

The system also maintains the records 

of authorization for these employees to 

carry firearms and ammunition in this 

hostile threat area. This system of 

records will cover these records 

maintained in USCENTCOM IT systems, 

and any paper records that may be 

associated with it. This includes records 

maintained in the Joint Contingency 

Contracting System (JCCS), which 

registers and investigates contractors to 

verify their personal information and 

evaluates them for trustworthiness to 

work with DoD military and civilian 

employees and to access military 

installations located in the 

USCENTCOM Area of Operations. 

DoD SORNs have been published in 

the Federal Register and are available 

from the address in FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT or at the Defense 

Privacy, Civil Liberties, and 

Transparency Division website at 

https://dpcld.defense.gov/privacy. 

II. Privacy Act 

Under the Privacy Act, a ‘‘system of 

records’’ is a group of records under the 

control of an agency from which 

information is retrieved by the name of 

an individual or by some identifying 

number, symbol, or other identifying 

particular assigned to the individual. In 

the Privacy Act, an individual is defined 

as a U.S. citizen or lawful permanent 

resident. 

In accordance with 5 U.S.C. 552a(r) 

and Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) Circular No. A–108, DoD has 

provided a report of this system of 

records to the OMB and to Congress. 

Dated: July 13, 2021. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

SYSTEM NAME AND NUMBER: 

Contract Employees Vetting and 

Arming Authorization, FCENTCOM 05. 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

Unclassified. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Defense Information Systems Agency 

(DISA), Defense Enterprise Computing 

Center (DECC) Ogden, 7879 Wardleigh 

Road, Hill AFB, UT 84056–5997. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S): 

Joint Contingency Expeditionary 

Systems (JCXS) Portfolio Manager, 

Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Joint 

Contingency and Expeditionary Services 

(JCXS), 8725 John J. Kingman Road, Fort 

Belvoir, VA 22060. jccs.support@

dla.mil. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

Section 822 of Public Law 116–92, 

‘‘National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2020,’’ December 20, 2020; 

Section 872 of Public Law 115–232, 

‘‘National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2019,’’ August 13, 2018; 

Sections 841 to 843 of Public Law 

113–291, ‘‘National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015,’’ 

December 19, 2014; DoD DTM 18–003, 

‘‘Prohibition on Providing Funds to the 

Enemy and Authorization of Additional 

Access to Records,’’ April 9, 2018; 

USCENTCOM EXORD on Designation of 

Vendor Vetting Responsibilities in the 

USCENTCOM Theater Area of 

Operation, November 3, 2017; 

USCENTCOM EXORD on Designation of 

Vendor Vetting Responsibilities in the 

USCENTCOM Theater Area of 

Operation, MOD 01, July 10, 2019. 

PURPOSE(S) OF THE SYSTEM: 

This system of records maintains 

USCENTCOM’s registration, 

investigation, and verification of 

contract employees to work for the 

command in the theater of operations. 

The system also maintains the records 

of authorization for these employees to 

carry firearms and ammunition in this 

hostile threat area. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

DoD contract employees and other 

federal agency contract employees. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

Identity information including name, 

telephone number(s), email address(es), 

Social Security number, other 

government-issued personal 

identification documents; criminal 

history information, (e.g., arrests, 

convictions); financial information, 

limited to the number of shares of stock 

the employee holds in the company 

which employs him/her; and 

employment information, including 

employer’s name and contact 

information. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Information is obtained from the 

individual and from DoD and other 

federal agencies. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

In addition to those disclosures 

generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 

552a(b) of the Privacy Act of 1974, as 

amended, records contained herein may 

specifically be disclosed outside the 

DoD as a routine use pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows: 


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A. To contractors, grantees, experts, 

consultants, students, and others 

performing or working on a contract, 

service, grant, cooperative agreement, or 

other assignment for the Federal 

Government when necessary to 

accomplish an agency function related 

to this system of records. 

B. To the appropriate Federal, State, 

local, territorial, tribal, foreign, or 

international law enforcement authority 

or other appropriate entity where a 

record, either alone or in conjunction 

with other information, indicates a 

violation or potential violation of law, 

whether criminal, civil, or regulatory in 

nature. 

C. To any component of the 

Department of Justice for the purpose of 

representing the DoD, or its 

components, officers, employees, or 

members in pending or potential 

litigation to which the record is 

pertinent. 

D. In an appropriate proceeding 

before a court, grand jury, or 

administrative or adjudicative body or 

official, when the DoD or other Agency 

representing the DoD determines the 

records are relevant and necessary to the 

proceeding; or in an appropriate 

proceeding before an administrative or 

adjudicative body when the adjudicator 

determines the records to be relevant to 

the proceeding. 

E. To the National Archives and 

Records Administration for the purpose 

of records management inspections 

conducted under the authority of 44 

U.S.C. 2904 and 2906. 

F. To a Member of Congress or staff 

acting upon the Member’s behalf when 

the Member or staff requests the 

information on behalf of, and at the 

request of, the individual who is the 

subject of the record. 

G. To appropriate agencies, entities, 

and persons when (1) the DoD suspects 

or confirms a breach of the system of 

records; (2) the DoD determines as a 

result of the suspected or confirmed 

breach there is a risk of harm to 

individuals, the DoD (including its 

information systems, programs, and 

operations), the Federal Government, or 

national security; and (3) the disclosure 

made to such agencies, entities, and 

persons is reasonably necessary to assist 

in connection with the DoD’s efforts to 

respond to the suspected or confirmed 

breach or to prevent, minimize, or 

remedy such harm. 

H. To another Federal agency or 

Federal entity, when the DoD 

determines information from this 

system of records is reasonably 

necessary to assist the recipient agency 

or entity in (1) responding to a 

suspected or confirmed breach or (2) 

preventing, minimizing, or remedying 

the risk of harm to individuals, the 

recipient agency or entity (including its 

information systems, programs and 

operations), the Federal Government, or 

national security, resulting from a 

suspected or confirmed breach. 

I. To such recipients and under such 

circumstances and procedures as are 

mandated by Federal statute or treaty. 

J. To Federal intelligence and law 

enforcement agencies to determine if a 

contract employee is suspected or 

confirmed to be affiliated with bad 

actors including, but not limited to, 

human traffickers, terrorists, drug 

traffickers, or individuals involved in 

other criminal activities or human rights 

violations. 

K. To North Atlantic Treaty 

Organization (NATO) personnel 

working alongside DoD in theater, who 

are hiring contract employees to move 

goods and provide services such as food 

service and physical security. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR STORAGE OF

RECORDS: 

The records are stored in paper form 

and on electronic storage media. The 

records may be stored on magnetic disc, 

tape, or digital media; in agency-owned 

cloud environments; or in vendor Cloud 

Service Offerings certified under the 

Federal Risk and Authorization 

Management Program (FedRAMP). 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETRIEVAL OF

RECORDS: 

Records are retrieved by the contract 

employee’s name. 

POLICIES AND PRACTICES FOR RETENTION AND

DISPOSAL OF RECORDS: 

A. Individual records for contract 

employees maintained in the system 

may be destroyed or deleted no less 

than 7 years and no more than 10 years 

after cutoff of calendar year of employee 

termination. 

B. Correspondence, memorandums, 

and other records relating to codes of 

ethics and standards of conduct 

information where contract employees 

were denied opportunity to work or 

carry arms in the USCENTCOM theater: 

These are cut off upon completion of 

final action, held 50 years, and then 

may be destroyed/deleted. Earlier 

destruction is authorized for routine 

materials not needed for legal purposes. 

ADMINISTRATIVE, TECHNICAL, AND PHYSICAL

SAFEGUARDS: 

Records are maintained in a 

controlled facility. Physical entry is 

restricted by the use of locks, guards, 

and is accessible only to authorized 

personnel. Access to computerized data 

is restricted by Common Access Cards. 

Access to records is limited to person(s) 

responsible for servicing the records in 

the performance of their official duties 

and who are properly screened and 

cleared for need-to-know. All 

individuals granted access to this 

system of records are required to have 

taken Information Assurance and 

Privacy Act training. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals seeking access to 

information about themselves contained 

in this system of records should address 

written requests to Chief, USCENTCOM 

FOIA/PA, FOIA Requester Service 

Center, 7115 South Boundary 

Boulevard, MacDill AFB, FL 33621– 

5101or be email at: 

centcom.macdill.centcomhq.mbx.freedom-of-information-act@

mail.mil: Signed, written requests 

should contain the full name, identifier 

(i.e., SSN or DoD ID Number), current 

address and telephone number of the 

individual. In addition, the requester 

must provide either a notarized 

statement or a declaration made in 

accordance with 28 U.S.C. 1746, using 

the following format: 

If executed outside the United States: 

‘‘I declare (or certify, verify, or state) 

under penalty of perjury under the laws 

of the United States of America that the 

foregoing is true and correct. Executed 

on (date). (Signature).’’ 

If executed within the United States, 

its territories, possessions, or 

commonwealths: ‘‘I declare (or certify, 

verify, or state) under penalty of perjury 

that the foregoing is true and correct. 

Executed on (date). (Signature).’’ 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The DoD rules for accessing records, 

contesting contents, and appealing 

initial Component determinations are 

published in 32 CFR part 310 or may be 

obtained from the system manager. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURES: 

Individuals seeking to determine 

whether information about themselves 

is contained in this system of records 

should follow the instructions for 

Record Access Procedures above. 

EXEMPTIONS PROMULGATED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

HISTORY: 

None. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15392 Filed 7–19–21; 8:45 am] 

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