The Snowden leaks, the Navy Yard shooting, and recent evidence that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s primary background check contractor all have forced the federal government to look at changing the way it does background checks.
The Snowden leaks, the Navy Yard shooting, and recent evidence that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) primary background check contractor, U.S. Investigations Services Inc. (USIS), allegedly turned in hundreds of thousands of incomplete background investigations, all have forced the federal government to look at changing the way it does background checks.
For one thing, USIS had evidently been doing many of their own audits. No more, OPM declared in February. Not only is OPM going to be doing their own checks on contractors, they are also going to increase inspections and put in place a tracking tool to make sure standards are met before background investigation cases are closed, says an article in The Washington Post.