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What's a glassy-eyed carp in a dirty pond got to do with pandemic life?
No matter how you look at it, the process for investigating people and granting them security clearance has been a hairball for decades.
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is a little more than a year old, and it's still adding more mission areas. It recently acquired the legacy security clearance IT system from the Office of Personnel Management and the program office responsible for building a new one.
The U.S. Agency for Global Media once conducted background investigations and adjudications on its own employees, but after years of mismanagement, the Office of Personnel Management has revoked those authorities from the broadcasting agency. Revoking an agency's investigative authorities is "exceedingly rare," OPM said.
In today's Federal Newscast, Senators say they're still fielding complaints from VA health employees who say they don't have enough support to work safely.
Government is closer to meeting its security clearance processing goals for the first time in years, due, in large part, to the steady rise in continuous evaluation enrollment.
In today's Federal Newscast, Defense Secretary Mark Esper is directing that anyone on DoD property wear a cloth mask if they can’t consistently keep a six-foot social distance from other people.
Some agencies are struggling to vet and issue credentials to new employees during the coronavirus, as some federal facilities that collect and process fingerprints are closed.
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency will name a new permanent director after months of acting leadership.
In today's Federal Newscast, agencies receive new ways to protect their data on contractor or non-federal systems.
Federal contractors are pleased with the progress the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency has made in slashing the background investigation inventory, but they're still searching for solutions that address the end-to-end suitability, credentialing and security clearance process.
In today's Federal Newscast, the General Services Administration is trying to make it easier to learn and ask questions about its relatively new beta.SAM.gov contract opportunities portal.
The General Services Administration will also assume management over the Office of Personnel Management's office space in Washington later this fall.
In today's Federal Newscast, the DCSA says it's business model is getting more efficient in its first full year of operation.