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DoD Consolidated Adjudications Facility News
The DoD Consolidated Adjudications Facility (CAF) was already utilizing telework capabilities for their personnel reviewing and adjudicating background investigations prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. That capability enabled the DoD CAF to keep pushing through the backlog and reducing the inventory to a steady state. Here is are some of their most recent
Contractor Background Investigative Work is Slowing Down
The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency now conducts 95% of the background investigations for the Federal Government using a mix of federal employee investigators and contractor companies who are designated investigative service providers. The ratio of federal investigators to contractor investigators stands is hard to distinguish because DCSA ramped up
I agree, most investigators are not investigating. I see so much written off and/or scheduled for in person because an investigator doesn’t think outside of what is listed or what…
It’s security theater
This guy’s investigation was presumably conducted “in person” and was apparently done horribly. Perhaps this is the case that will grab enough attention to swing us back into real “in…
Very doubtful that DCSA and the U.S. government will revert back to in person interviews.