Yeah I know someone who came from Caci to Gdit and his wasn’t adjudicated either😳
GDIT was grossly incompetent. I used to be with one of their subs. There were several BIs who GDIT didn’t not actually complete their clearance process. After it was discovered they fired the BIs for made up reasons.
I signed NDA’s for various other agencies where I was working backgrounds but I do not think it has anything to do with adjudication. If these other agencies required a clearance (and there are certain ones I would think would want that) then why does an active clearance not show up in JPAS?
Favorable determination…means you are good to go but we are not actually going to activate your clearance. The way I understand it…once you leave a position where you are given favorable determination then you have 2 years from your last update until your clearance expires. If you don’t find a job requiring a clearance by the end of that 2 years you are SOL unless you can find someone willing to spend the money to get you through the process. Thank you OPM. I realize how difficult it would have been to just adjudicate/activate the clearance.
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I definitely wish they made things more clear for BI’s. Last year I went to a facility and they looked me up in JPAS and told me that I had a clearance but I just didn’t have “access”
I was one of the ones that left GDIT and didn’t know I didn’t have a clearance until I had a job offer on the table. Sucks because I transferred from another one of the contractors to GDIT. Luckily, I had another company put me in to be adjudicated in November 2017 so a different was willing and able to submit me before my two year expiration.
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To follow up (in case someone is wondering), I checked internally and it’s “Active TS clearance eligibility” (for BI).
Befuddled as to WHERE all the work is?? Clearances dont stop…National Security depends on it.
How long can the workload be held? After BI’s are weeded out due to financial strains?
So frustrating…logically, why would new creds be distributed.
That’s the million dollar question. Nobody knows including SCIS and CACI. Perspecta is getting work however and I have recently heard as early as today they are hiring IC’s and hourlies. Go figure…
Its anyone’s guess what is going on. Definitely feels like the federal government is trying to thin the herd and force layoffs.
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Majority of T5R’s don’t require any interviews as a result of CE which began in earnest last spring. Majority of T2’s and T3’s are being done over the phone at a much more efficient rate. So, the pie has shrunk considerably and is likely being handled primarily by the Federal investigators with the leftovers being handled by currently #1 ranked Perspecta FT FI’s in same geo area or, TDY from areas with low work load.
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One thing for sure. Don’t take what you hear on this blog for anything other than hearsay. NO ONE knows what’s going on. Fed Staff is short on work. All the Contractors have pockets of work here and there. Everyone is struggling. The backlog is obviously growing. DCSA isn’t transitioning as smoothly as anticipated and CE will not stop issues. CE will only bring out problems sooner. Tighten the belt and hang on, the ride is bumpy…
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It’s definitely turbulent times for us BI’s. I’ve been studying for an IT certification (CCNA) so I can have something to fall back on when the time comes. I enjoy this line of work but there isn’t a whole lot peace of mind when it comes to stability
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I found this persons response to be the most blunt, straightforward, and accurate assessment of what is going on currently.
I’m receiving all tiers- more initial and triggered interviews assigned currently. Definitely see an uptick there.
I hate to be the bearer of bad news but the backlog of the last several years is almost gone.
Both the fed and contract side beefed up personnel to deal with said backlog and now that it is gone, this is the new normal.
There is no new backlog pending.
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This is the new normal. Work will most likely increase slightly, but the backlog is gone and will probably not return. The backlog grew to over 700,000 cases in 2015 because of the USIS debacle and the subsequent sudden loss of so many contract investigators. They are not going to let that happen again. Additionally, most of the procedural changes that have been over the last 10 years have been implemented to reduce the amount of fieldwork required. Unless there are known issues, we no longer do local law checks, campus law, dean’s record, residential record, military record, security file, etc. We no longer need two references, we no longer need two neighbors and can interview resi sources by phone. we can conduct T3 interviews by phone, we can double dip and have one source cover multiple items. While we applauded all of these changes when they were made, these changes were slowly reducing the number of field investigators needed. The new Continuous Evaluation program will continue to reduce the number of needed field investigators. Everyone seemed excited to be working cases that were more current as opposed to working old cases that you had to bring up to date, but the backlog represented a certain amount of job security that is no longer present. This is a rapidly shrinking career field.
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No law checks, campus law, deans record, etc for a T5? I could understand for a T3, but not doing them for a T5 is just begging for trouble.
I’ve always felt the same way. Cutting out deans and campus police for education is absolutely astonishing and I’m dumbfounded by these policy changes over the years. So much can be gathered about someone by checking these locations on campus.
And I also have found rental records to be valuable information.
My understanding is that all of these decisions are made by ODNI.
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These were all implemented for backlog mitigation and were supposed to be temporary. Since the backlog is gone it would make sense to bring back the more stringent requirements. Another Snowden or Alexis is just waiting to happen.
We have made the same argument about the mitigation policies being insufficient. We were told that the stakeholders have agreed that in which the speed cases can be done is worth the inherit risk.
The 45 and 90 day Congressional mandates are still in place from years ago and the mitigation policies are not going away.