Since 2008, the Office of Personnel Management has been on a crusade to root out falsification in background investigations using the courts. Nearly two…
In the coming months, the federal government will release a detailed plan for implementing more than a dozen recommendations to improve the security clearance…
The Preventing Conflicts of Interest with Contractors Act would block the Office of Personnel Management from contracting with companies to perform final quality reviews if those same companies are also responsible for conducting initial investigations. OPM Director Katherine Archuleta announced in early February that, going forward, only federal employees would conduct final quality reviews. The new bill writes Archuleta’s decision into law. Otherwise it could be reversed by a future OPM director.
