When the NED Team deploys NED Maintenance Release 4.2.2 on August 10, NED portal users will see a change in background investigation naming conventions and values that align with current Office of Personnel/National Background Investigations Bureau (OPM/NBIB) “Tier” terminology.
As DPSAC News readers know, an individual’s background investigation requires him or her to complete either the Standard Form (SF) 85, the SF85P or the SF-86 as well as other supplemental forms. The position the individual is hired to fill will correspond to one of five Tier levels that reflect the level of risk and sensitivity associated with that position.
In FY 2017 OPM/NBIB completed the transition to its Tiers background investigation terminology and values system, By the summer of 2017, DPSAC also adopted the Tiers system into its operations and has been using the Tiers exclusively since then.
The NED Portal
The deployment of NED Maintenance Release 4.2.2 incorporates the OPM/NBIB Tier nomenclature and values system into the NED portal and
marks the final step in NIH’s changeover to the Tier system.
Click
here
for a full description of the five tiers and their corresponding background investigations. This information is also found on the DPSAC website at:
https://go.usa.gov/xQKgR
. You may want to bookmark this URL for future reference.
To read the recent NED Team e-mail sent to its NED Portal Customers announcing the deployment of NED Maintenance Release 4.2.2,, including the migration to the Tiers system and other important changes, please click
here
.
