While the Office of Personnel Management’s system for submitting federal background checks is temporarily offline for security upgrades, the office announced that in the meantime government employees ...

With the reopening of e-QIP, the security clearance process begins again and contractors are breathing a sigh of relief. The news that the e-QIP system for background checks came back online this week ...

The government is electronically accepting security clearance forms for background checks again. The Office of Personnel Management (OPM), which handles the security clearance process for federal ...

We often are consulted on security clearance matters by federal employees and government contractors in the security clearance process. In many cases, the security clearance application, investigation ...

Even as the administration works to address the two OPM data breaches affecting upwards of 18 million current and former federal, contractor and military personnel, we now face the potentially broad ...

Applicants to begin the the federal government’s backlogged background investigation process can expect a smoother online experience with a forthcoming updated application form, according to the the ...

WASHINGTON, July 23 (Reuters) - The U.S. government's hiring office, hit recently by a massive computer hack, said on Thursday it was restarting its online system for processing security clearance ...

The Office of Personnel Management has decided to take a step back in an attempt to move forward after hackers breached files containing sensitive data on millions of current and former federal ...

(TNS) — The emergency decision last week to shut down the online system of the agency that conducts government background investigations could create significant delays for contractors and hamper ...