Security Clearance Process
Security Clearance Reform Again Debated on Capitol Hill
Last week’s Senate hearing on security clearance reform focused on defense contractors and necessary reforms to prevent another Aaron Alexis from falling through the cracks. Several issues are of specific interest to the background investigator community, including proposals to shorten the length of time between periodic reinvestigations; improving technology and
Personnel Security Policy Updates Announced
Pending changes to personnel security policy have been released via the published minutes of the last NISPPAC meeting.
Your Thoughts on ODNI's 2012 Security Clearance Report?
This afternoon I posted a brief overview of the already brief annual report on the security clearance process released by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The meager report is primarily data, leaving analysis to the reader. The motive for demanding release of this data (I believe) is
Security Clearance Process: Pathetic?
An 0p-ed in the Washington Post by former deputy secretary of defense and chairman of the Defense Policy Board John Hamre calls the current security clearance process pathetic. Hamre relayed the process he had to go through for his recent top secret security clearance renewal. For unclear reasons he had