The entire DISA workforce takes great pride in how professionally they advanced the security vetting program for the nation and the DOD.” “I want all the personnel who are transferring to know that they will always be a part of the DISA family and we look forward to working with them in their new DSS roles. “DSS gains a tremendous brain trust with these individuals,” DISA Director Vice.

The move sends the entire NBIS team of 40 DISA and 12 Joint Service Provider personnel to the Defense Security Service, which will take over federal security clearances for the Office of Personnel Management’s National Background Investigation Bureau. The move had been in the works for several months, and David Norquist, the Pentagon’s Chief Management Officer who is performing the duties of the deputy secretary of Defense, issued a memorandum in late January transferring the “authority, direction, and control” of DISA’s National Background Investigation Service (NBIS) to the Defense Security Service (DSS). The Defense Information Systems Agency has transitioned the team that is responsible for building out the systems that will serve as the backbone for the revamped federal background check process.

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