Pentagon Insider Threat Program Bought LexisNexis Access to Employees' Family Records

A Defense Department counterintelligence unit bought LexisNexis Accurint to screen its own workforce, and required the vendor to make employees' family members searchable.

The Defense Threat Reduction Agency awarded contract HDTRA122P0034 to RELX Inc in August 2022 for Accurint for Government, LexisNexis Diligence, and Virtual Identity Report. DTRA released the contract file to FinePrint in July 2026.

The statement of work, dated 10 June 2022 and cleared by DTRA for public release, names the three programs the subscriptions serve: the Insider Threat Program, the Supply Chain Risk Management Program, and the Personnel Security Program. All three run on DTRA personnel, contractors, and applicants rather than foreign targets.

DTRA listed the searches the tool had to support. Among them: identity and alias verification, driver's license verification, employment and residence history, criminal history, financial history, bankruptcies, liens, foreclosures, vehicle repossessions, phone numbers, email addresses, and sex offender records. The list also includes "family member verification," a requirement to search persons "using real-time data," and a category the document calls "the virtual presence of persons." None of the three is defined.

The agency has expanded the contract three times. Licenses went from seven to twelve in September 2023. Total value went from $29,232 to $124,704, with performance running through August 2027. Unit pricing is withheld as confidential commercial information.

Accurint for Government is a separate product from the Accurint Virtual Crime Center, and the file does not show whether records contributed by local police reach federal subscribers through it.