Federal Investigative Services Information Technology

Mission— Federal Investigative Services Information Technology

The National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) portfolio of systems and applications provides End-to-End (E2E) Personnel Vetting (PV) for the United States Government (USG). NBIS is a discrete set of IT resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of personal vetting information, including the full lifecycle of processes and procedures that inform and enable the PV process: Initial Vetting, Continuous Vetting (CV), Upgrades, Transfer of Trust, and Re-establishment of Trust. The current NBIS system comprises of a portfolio of twenty-one (21) PV systems and applications with multiple sub-systems. The architecture, software language and interfaces for these systems vary widely and include on-premise mainframe and servers to cloud hosted services and applications. For clarity, these systems and their applications will be grouped in categories including Background Investigation Enterprise Systems (BIES), Defense Information System for Security (DISS), MIRADOR, Secure Web Fingerprint Transmission (SWFT), applications developed under NBIS Other Transaction Authority (OTA) Agreement, and DoD Consolidated Adjudication Services (CAS) Apps (formerly known as “CAF Apps”). Given the uniqueness of the capability and the objective to reuse existing PV capital investments, previous efforts to develop a single NBIS system are being redirected towards a portfolio modernization program, migrating existing applications into the Cloud, and modernizing as required. During NBIS migration/modernization, DCSA will continue to operate the existing NBIS infrastructure serving the USG today, while iteratively migrating components of the system into a cloud service provider using the Joint Warfighting Cloud Capability contracting vehicle. The migration to cloud will include a cloud readiness assessment and refactoring the NBIS underlying software and infrastructure into modular, cloud-native applications, shared services capabilities, cybersecurity capabilities, and interoperability. RDT&E funds support the migration and modernization of the NBIS portfolio of systems, Cloud hosting of the DevSecOps development pipeline, and program management costs.

Mission— National Background Investigation Services

The Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA) is a strategic asset to the nation and our allies - continuously ensuring a trusted federal, industrial, and affiliated workforce, and enabling industry's delivery of uncompromised capabilities by leveraging advanced technologies and innovation. DCSA uniquely blends critical technology protection, trusted personnel vetting, counterintelligence, and professional education and certification to advance and preserve America's strategic edge. The National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) portfolio of systems and applications provides End-to-End (E2E) Personnel Vetting (PV) for the United States Government (USG). NBIS is a discrete set of IT resources organized for the collection, processing, maintenance, use, sharing, dissemination, or disposition of personal vetting information, including the full lifecycle of processes and procedures that inform and enable the PV process: Initial Vetting, Continuous Vetting (CV), Upgrades, Transfer of Trust, and Re-establishment of Trust.

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