The new government-wide system, called NBIS, aims to greatly improve federal background investigations, says DISA’s Vice Adm. Norton. A new information technology system from the Defense Information ...

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency conducts background investigations for approximately 105 federal agencies as a reimbursable service through a working capital fund. For the third ...

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency has reduced the background investigation backlog from a high of about 725,000 cases in April 2018 to 231,000, according to leader William Evanina.

Software asset management and purchases for the IT system underpinning security clearance background investigations will be consolidated under a single commercial contractor. The program created to ...

The Obama administration will create a new office to conduct background checks on federal employees, in an effort to improve the security of personal information in the wake of the massive data ...

A federal contractor tasked with performing background checks on Department of Defense employees seeking high-level security clearances copped to submitting reams of bogus reports when she claimed to ...

Two government officials said Tuesday that pending changes to the federal background check system could soon reduce the amount of time it takes to onboard new agency employees, assuming the changes ...

Peraton will deliver background investigation services in support of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The single award task order, ...

No particular threat has the potential to draw the concerns of security practitioners more than the fear of the insider. The concept of the insider threat has prompted a whole cottage industry of ...

Now that President Donald Trump has ordered the FBI to conduct a supplemental background investigation into Brett Kavanaugh, the job of getting to the bottom of the explosive allegation of sexual ...

To reduce the number of personnel security investigations backlogged in the Air Force, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base on Oct. 31 became the first installation in the Air Force to host a temporary ...

The fire service has, on occasion, been likened to the largest organized gang in the United States. Think about it: We have colors, territories, a rank structure and a unique identity that relegates ...