rmation to the employees of USIS. While all 700 employees of the original OPM investigations unit have been offered jobs with the new USIS, the door has been opened for private investigators to seek high-profile positions, which were once unavailable to them.
             Interestingly, I am having a background investigation done on myself right now. I am seeking an internship with a federal risk consulting company, and the Office of Personnel Management is investigating my past. While the investigator I spoke with is still employed by the government, he confirmed that the privatization is under way and just slow in transpiring. In fact, the federal investigators work hand in hand with the private investigators. A significant number of my contacts live in the Colorado Springs area where I grew up. A separate investigator was assigned to conduct those interviews and he happened to be with the Office of United States Investigative Service, who is of course, the privatized branch of OPM. To my understanding the two agencies cooperat
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