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Government wants secure background check system by September 2018

Federal Times: The federal government wants to create a national background investigation system. And it wants that system by next year.

In a notice to industry on FedBizOpps, the Defense Information Systems Agency announced plans to create a federalwide National Background Investigation Service, or NBIS. The project will fall under the Department of Defense’s chief information officer.

“The NBIS will be a service that supports background investigations by providing the information resources necessary to determine an individual’s trustworthiness to have access to U.S. government facilities, information and information systems,” DISA said. “The objective of this effort is to acquire a working, end-to-end software prototype of the federal background investigation workflow.”

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