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As the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Defense Counterintelligence Agency (DCSA) continue to move forward with implementing the Trusted Workforce (TW) 2.0 initiative, there will be changes to reciprocity processes and bringing back employees who were previously cleared. When fully implemented, vetting scenarios under Transfer of Trust and

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The Defense Counterintelligence Agency (DCSA) provided notification to Industry and Government Stakeholders that because of the lapse on appropriated funding and the government shutdown, it cannot approve/authorize the submission of background investigations that were not scheduled prior to October 1st. Investigations that were in progress prior to the lapse in

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George Wesley, the current administration’s nominee to head the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC), has indicated his plans to establish a new counterintelligence type…