The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency has reduced the background investigation backlog from a high of about 725,000 cases in April 2018 to 231,000, according to leader William Evanina.

The Pentagon is expected to take over background-check investigations for federal government employees, tightening controls and tackling a backlog of workers awaiting security clearances.

When the National Background Investigation Bureau — the agency the Obama administration created in the wake of the massive Office of Personnel Management cyber attack — stands up next month, it will ...

The transfer of the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) and its nearly 3,000 employees from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and into DoD's Defense Counterintelligence and ...

That requirement caused a spike in the number of requests for background checks resulting in a massive backlog. 5 Investigates has been battling DCF for the past five months to find out exactly ...

While most states use the federal gun background check system, Tennessee is one of a handful of “point-of-contact” states that conduct their own firearm background checks with their own databases.

Background screening backlog affecting local daycare businesses by: Melanie Michael. Posted: Aug 15, 2016 / 07:04 PM EDT. Updated: Aug 15, 2016 / 07:04 PM EDT. by: Melanie Michael.

The federal government is struggling to conduct background checks on people seeking security clearances, creating a backlog that one industry group says encompasses more than 700,000 applicants ...