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After OPM Ends Contract, USIS Says Committed To Security Business

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 11th, 2014

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USIS' Global Security & Solutions President Jeremy Wensinger. Photo: USIS

Professional services firm US Investigations Services, LLC (USIS) Wednesday evening said it remains committed to its Global Security and Solutions (GS&S) business following a federal agency’s decision a day earlier not to award further contract options to the company for background investigations. The background investigations field work and services done by USIS for the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) is actually done by the company’s Investigations Services Division. That work, worth hundreds of millions of dollars annually, formed the vast…

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