NAVADMIN 015/16 institutes mandatory random monthly polygraph tests for "privileged users and higher-risk personnel."

So uh, this looks like it can apply to anyone who is TS/SCI-eligible as well. Not just those in the Intel world, or running the networks.

  1. Applicability. In accordance with references (a) and (c), the following privileged users are subject to the Navys Random Counterintelligence Polygraph Program:
a.  Those whose duties involve access to Top Secret information.

b.  Those whose duties involve a Special Access Program under Executive 

Order 12958, as amended.

**c.  Those whose duties involve the creation, use, or handling of 

classified information related to sensitive intelligence or operational activities.**

c. sounds like it applies to anyone who just touches SIPR as everything could be somehow tied to "operational activities."

b. OPNAV N2/N6 will select privileged users from the Total Workforce Management System (TWMS) Information Assurance Workforce Module. TWMS is the system of record for documenting privileged users. OPNAV N2/N6 will select higher-risk individuals in coordination and collaboration with Navy commands based on a risk management approach.

Who is higher-risk? Pretty much anyone with a foreign spouse for instance, regardless of if you work in the Intel communities.

I guess my first question is, is this legal? Typically you pick orders to a command that has a poly requirement. I believe people have the right to refuse a polygraph currently under the same USMJ article that affords you the right to not make a statement. Will this be like a urinalysis where if you refuse, you are sent to Mast, or more, for disobeying an order for instance. It'll be interesting to see how this is implemented.

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