The Department of Defense (DoD) announced on Friday that it has officially approved a modernization plan for its National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) system, which serves as the Federal government’s one-stop-shop IT system for end-to-end personnel vetting. […]
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The Department of Defense (DoD) needs another month to determine the future development strategy for its IT systems supporting background investigations, a top DoD official told lawmakers on Wednesday. […]
A new Federal watchdog report is pushing the Defense Department (DoD) to come up with better schedule and cost data for ongoing efforts to improve its National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) system, and warns that failure to do so may end up further delaying replacement of legacy IT systems upon which NBIS has relied. […]
Government-wide security clearance processes, and the half million-plus backlog in the clearance applications pipeline, made the Government Accountability Office’s (GAO) High-Risk report last week as a contributing factor to the larger problem of ensuring IT security, generally. […]
The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) said on Dec. 18 that it plans to put in place new capabilities to modernize its security clearance investigations operation later this month and continuing into next year. […]