background checks

DHS Senior Official Performing the Duties of the Deputy Secretary, Kristie Canegallo, Gives Remarks at the DHS Career Expo Kick-Off

Over 1,200 interviews and 400 job offers later, DHS wraps up two-day career expo

A two-day DHS career expo resulted in hundreds of tentative job offers, and the agency expects to extend even more job offers in the coming days and weeks.

Federal Report

Justice Department appeals a case that found Air Force culpable in Texas church mass shooting

Air Force

How to boost your chances of getting that crucial security clearance

Workforce Rights/Governance

FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2017, file photo, crosses for members of the Holcombe family are part of a makeshift memorial for those who were killed in the Sutherland Springs Baptist Church shooting in Sutherland Springs, Texas. The U.S. Air Force must pay more than $230 million in damages to survivors and victims’ families of a 2017 Texas church massacre for failing to flag a conviction that might have kept the gunman from legally buying the weapon used in the shooting, a federal judge ruled, Monday, Feb. 7, 2022. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Air Force ordered to pay more than $230M in church shooting

Air Force

FILE - In this Nov. 12, 2017, file photo, a memorial for the victims of the shooting at Sutherland Springs First Baptist Church, including 26 white chairs each painted with a cross and and rose, is displayed in the church in Sutherland Springs, Texas. Republican leaders in gun-friendly Texas are stamping down the prospects of 'red flag' laws that would let enforcement seize some firearms from people who are deemed dangerous to themselves or others. Gun control advocates hoped for an opening after mass shootings at the church and high school within 6 months of each other. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

Air Force updates criminal justice platform after mass shooting highlighted flaws

Federal Newscast

Getty Images/iStockphoto/Phototreat

New rule could change how Pentagon pays fixed-price contracts

Federal Newscast

Associated Press

This photo shows the U.S. Supreme Court building in Washington, as the sun rises Sunday, Feb. 14, 2016. Antonin Scalia, the influential conservative and most provocative member of the Supreme Court, has died. He was 79. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)

Federal retirees get a win from the Supreme Court

Federal Newscast

Covering all the bases in the fight against insider threats

Commentary

Brenda Farrell: More to continuous evaluation than just a name

Federal Drive

4 changes in the NDAA that contractors need to know

Federal Drive

You posted a picture of your what on Facebook?

Mike Causey

Analytics needed to improve security clearance process

Karen Terrell, vice president of SAS Federal, argues that adaptive case management could transform the current approach to reviewing federal employees…

Commentary

Telework brings out underlying trust issues in federal workforce

Trust boils down to workers demonstrating a sense of reliability and consistency. With reliability and consistency, “people begin to depend on each other…

Technology

Background investigation fraud case against USIS moved to DC court

Management

Less than two weeks ago, a federal judge approved the transfer of the case alleging USIS with improperly conducting thousands of background-check reviews to Washington, D.C. An investigation conducted by the Office of Personnel Management’s inspector general remains ongoing. OPM says it has confidence in the reforms put in place by the company.