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Perspecta Enterprise Solutions LLC won a $75 million other transaction agreement on May 14 to continue modernization of the federal security clearance process.

The Defense Security Service and Defense Information Systems Agency awarded the OTA, which covers improvements to National Background Investigation Services information technology.

Perspecta will help DSS — which will eventually be renamed the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency — expedite background investigations, adjudications, continuous vetting and insider-threat programs.

“The objective with this OTA is to integrate new, bold and transformational approaches from the NBIS architecture and take the next step with technology to integrate and align other security missions,” said Terry Carpenter, program executive officer for NBIS, in the Tuesday announcement. “It complements the OTA awarded last June, as we work to build a system that is agile and flexible that better enables the federal vetting enterprise for the whole government.”

DISA awarded Enterprise Services, LLC a $49 million OTA in June 2018 to develop the prototype for NBIS’s investigation management shared service, the user interface for cases that automates key processes. DISA is now only nominally attached to background-check programs, having transferred its team to DSS earlier this year. The Office of Personnel Management’s National Background Investigations Bureau (NBIB) also is transferring to DSS.

NBIS wants to incorporate artificial intelligence capabilities like machine learning and natural language processing into its analytics. The service also wants to establish a “software factory” to quickly launch new vetting capabilities using DevSecOps automation with continuous authority to operate processes in the cloud.

Perspecta and nontraditional defense contractors will provide subject matter expertise, software licensing and IT tools and services throughout the process.

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