After OPM Hack, Pentagon to Store and Secure Sensitive Security Clearance Docs

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http://www.nextgov.com/cybersecurity/2016/01/after-opm-hack-pentagon-store-and-secure-sensitive-security-clearance-docs/125338/

By Jack Moore
Nextgov.com
January 22, 2016

In the continuing aftermath of the massive hack of sensitive records 
stored by the Office of Personnel Management, the Obama administration 
announced today it’s shifting the responsibility for conducting background 
investigations of sensitive personnel to the Defense Department

In the future, files containing personal information on security clearance 
seekers -- the same type of information netted last summer by purported 
Chinese hackers –will be stored and secured on Pentagon systems, officials 
say.

OPM is turning over its responsibilities for conducting background 
investigations to a newly created National Background Investigations 
Bureau. OPM currently conducts about 95 percent of all checks 
governmentwide, including 600,000 full-scale security clearance 
investigations each year.

The head of the new office will be appointed by the president and still 
report to the head of OPM. However, the office’s IT systems will be 
“designed, built, secured and operated” by the Pentagon, according to a 
fact sheet released by the administration.

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