Mr. Terry L. Carpenter Jr., SES - Program Executive Officer for the National Background Investigation Service presented a virtual hot topic forum to defense acquisition professionals via WebEx. This virtual DAU Hot Topic Forum covered the journey of the National Background Investigation Service (NBIS) from a traditional system-of-systems to an agile software development acquisition program. The discussion covered the imperative of digital transformation and a burning legacy platform, external policy impacts, internal program challenges, methodology and hosting debates, shift to the Cloud, and candid lessons along the way.