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

The Air Force had not put the shooter’s criminal history into the FBI’s background check system, allowing him to purchase the rifle with which he murdered…

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New rule could change how Pentagon pays fixed-price contracts

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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…

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Background investigation fraud case against USIS moved to DC court

Less than two weeks ago, a federal judge approved the transfer of the case alleging USIS with improperly conducting thousands of background-check reviews…

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Background check probe zeroes in on USIS contracts

Among the issues considered Tuesday by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee were contracting practices at the Office of Personnel Management that allowed the largest background-investigation contactor — accused by the Justice Department of taking improper shortcuts and defrauding the government — to conduct quality reviews of its own work.

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