# OPM Behind the Power Curve in Standing up the National Background Investigations Bureau

**URL:** https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/opm-behind-the-power-curve-in-standing-up-the-national-background-investigations-bureau/623
**Category:** SECURITY CLEARANCE NEWS
**Created:** [August 29, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/opm-behind-the-power-curve-in-standing-up-the-national-background-investigations-bureau/623 "2016-08-29T05:00:00Z")
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#### Post date: [August 29, 2016, 5:00am UTC](https://discuss.clearancejobsblog.com/t/opm-behind-the-power-curve-in-standing-up-the-national-background-investigations-bureau/623/1 "2016-08-29T05:00:00Z")

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Originally published at: [https://clearancejobsblog.com/opm-behind-power-curve-standing-national-background-investigations-bureau/](https://clearancejobsblog.com/opm-behind-power-curve-standing-national-background-investigations-bureau/)  
   
Back in January of this year OPM announced that it was standing up of a new agency, the National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB), which would take over conducting background investigations from OPM’s Federal Investigative Services by October 2016 as a part of security clearance processing reforms. On August 23, 2016 Senators Jon Tester and Claire…