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  • PF team earns AFOEA

    A particularly significant stretch of sustained accomplishments by the OSI Office of Procurement Fraud Investigations (PF) has been lauded by the Air Force Decorations Board, a component board of the Secretary of the Air Force Personnel Council, with its Air Force Organizational Excellence Award,

  • Glidewell joins elite alums from FBI National Academy

    The ranks of Office of Special Investigations alums from the prestigious FBI National Academy (NA) grew Dec. 16, 2021, with the graduation of Special Agent William Glidewell. Participation in the academy is by invitation only via a nomination process centered on stringent nominee qualifications.

  • Airman gets life sentence for murder, kidnapping

    Airman 1st Class Mark Gooch, 22, formerly assigned to the 56th Equipment Maintenance Squadron, Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, was given a life sentence Jan. 19, without the possibility of parole, by an Arizona judge, following a guilty conviction last year for the kidnapping and first-degree murder a

  • PJ leader retires after 30 years of service

    After three decades of service, the top civilian at the Office of Special Investigation’s Office of Special Projects retired, but says he looks forward to watching the organization grow from the sidelines. Terry Phillips, who was also the outgoing Air and Space Force's Special Access Program

  • OSI, investigative partners team to resolve global fraud scheme

    The Department of Justice announced, on Dec. 22, 2021, a global resolution of its criminal and civil investigations into Balfour Beatty Communities LLC (BBC), one of the largest providers of privatized military housing to the U.S. Armed Forces, for defrauding the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, and U.S.

  • Largest OSI caseload sent to National Archives

    Half-a-decade's worth of files from the Office of Special Investigations, totaling nearly 17,000 closed cases, were loaded into cargo vans and transported to the National Archives a year ahead of schedule. Just outside the nation's capital, in Suitland, Maryland, houses the National Archives and

  • Special agents neutralize threats, protect Air Force interests

    Counterintelligence, computer hacking and espionage aren’t just thrilling plot points for fictional spy novels or TV shows.These are true-to-life national security matters that keep Airmen busy in the Office of Special Investigations at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

  • Joint training builds partnerships, enhances communication

    Special agents from Washington Criminal Investigation Division Battalion participated in a joint training exercise with Air Force Office of Special Investigations and the Directorate of Emergency Services at Fort George G. Meade, Md., Oct. 26, 2021.The training exercise consisted of a staged double

  • Joint investigation grounds drones, imprisons smuggler

    Jason Arteaga-Loayza, 30, a former inmate at Fort Dix, N.J., was sentenced, via video conference Sept. 14, 2021, to 43 months in prison and three years of supervised release, for his role in a conspiracy to use drones to smuggle contraband, including cell phones, cell phone subscriber identity

  • Airman augments special assignment during deployment

    Senior Airman Ramandeep Kaur came to Ali Al Salem Air Base, Kuwait, as a defender originally assigned to the 387th Expeditionary Security Forces Squadron. After arriving on station, she was then transferred over to help the Office of Special Investigation Locally Employed Persons Screening Team