Perspecta wins $474 million OTA for background check management 7 hours ago The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency awarded a $474 million other transaction authority agreement to Perspecta for enterprise IT. (Getty Images) WASHINGTON An IT system prototype built by Perspecta to manage mass amounts of security clearance background checks will transition to production under an other transaction agreement from the Pentagon’s background investigation agency. The production agreement, using the Pentagon’s other transaction authority with less rigid competitive contract requirements for some technology development projects, is worth about $474 million over five years, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency estimated in its announcement May 14. The agency is building its capacity to manage about 95 percent of the federal government’s background investigations. That task is made more difficult by the government’s huge backlog of checks that have
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in Afghanistan.
It’s supposedly over, and I wasn’t happy. I didn’t cry until later. I just was empty. And if anything, I felt almost angry. It seemed like the announcement was coming not as a result of a watershed moment. It’s cliche, but it was definitely not with a bang, but with a whimper. There wasn’t a moment of reckoning. .
I remember there was this colonel who had talked to us right when we got into country. And he said, “I want you to remember that not a single thing you do out here is worth the life of a single Marine.”
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United StatesFactbox: Cautious U.S. re-opening does not include U.S. government, yet
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U.S. President Joe Biden, accompanied by Vice President Kamala Harris, speaks about the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) response and the vaccination program from the Rose Garden of the White House in Washington, U.S., May 13, 2021. REUTERS/Kevin Lamarque
With more than one-third of Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, traffic is starting to re-appear in some suburbs, schools are cautiously re-opening and masks are disappearing from outside walking paths.
But the federal government in Washington, D.C., which asked most employees to work from home during the pandemic, remains largely dependent on remote work.