US Investigations Services
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US Investigations Services
USIS is the privatized arm of the Office of Personnel Management's Office of Federal Investigations. OPM privatized its investigations function in 1996 into what became US Investigations Services, or USIS. The company began as an employee-owned company, but has since been purchased by private investors and is now owned by The Carlyle Group and Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe, two private equity firms. Since OPM’s privatization of its federal investigators, approximately 2000 investigators from the Defense Security Service have been transferred to OPM, and OPM has since reconstituted its federal investigations program in the Center for Federal Investigative Services, located within OPM. OPM is responsible for the bulk of federal security clearance investigations, but it contracts out most of this work.
USIS was initially awarded a sole-source no-bid contract for conducting all of OPM's investigations, but since the initial contract other companies have been awarded parts of the investigations contract, including Kroll Inc., SA-TECH, CACI International, Inc., and Omniplex.
