background investigation
DCSA Director Conducts a Ride Along with a Background Investigator
Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) Director David Cattler, who has been the agency director since March 2024, recently accompanied a special agent background investigator as a ride along while conducting field work on multiple background investigations. The director wanted to better understand the multiple mission areas throughout DCSA, and
DCSA Implements Corrective Measures to Tackle Increased Investigation Inventory and Timeliness
The Defense Counterintelligence Agency (DCSA) has implemented several corrective measures to tackle the growing background investigation inventory which has increased the time in getting them completed and closed out. DCSA stood up a “Tiger Team” to identify the constraints and factors that have led to the increase, and they came
Congress Introduces the Security Clearance Review Act
In an effort to ensure the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) security clearance vetting process for political appointees remains based on established national security adjudicative guidelines and is not abused by executive power, House representatives introduced legislation called the Security Clearance Review Act. If passed, it would require political appointees to
Continuous Vetting for Public Trust Workers Adds to Personnel Security Workloads
With the announcement by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) that as a part of the Trusted Workforce 2.0 initiative, all Non-Sensitive Public Trust (NS-PT) employees and contractors will be enrolled in Continuous Vetting (CV), the workload for personnel security folks reviewing the alerts