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Personnel Security Policy Updates Announced

While security clearance changes and reforms continue to be debated on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, significant pending changes were recently mentioned in the published minutes of the last NISPPAC meeting. All have direct correlations to current criticisms of the clearance process, from the need to update adjudicative guidelines to reforms of security clearance polygraphs.

The changes include:

  • Revised Federal Investigative Standards
  • Revised Adjudicative Guidelines
  • New National Reporting Requirements
  • New Polygraph Policy

Read more about the pending changes here.

While security clearance changes and reforms continue to be debated on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, significant pending changes were recently mentioned in the published minutes of the last NISPPAC meeting. All have direct correlations to current criticisms of the clearance process, from the need to update adjudicative guidelines to reforms of security clearance polygraphs.

While security clearance changes and reforms continue to be debated on Capitol Hill and elsewhere, significant pending changes were recently mentioned in the published minutes of the last NISPPAC meeting. All have direct correlations to current criticisms of the clearance process, from the need to update adjudicative guidelines to reforms.

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    Crickets.

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    It appears that there are no real changes coming to the security clearance investigation process. As it exists now it is a joke and worthless. Apparently Congress has done a lot of research and has arrived at a way of improving it. Contractor investigators will be under more scrutiny and their job will be even more burdensome. Contractor investigators already spend 95% of their time on worthless administrative minutiae for laughable pay. My advice to contractor investigators out there is to spend all of your free time preparing and trying to find another line of work. Anything. When you factor in the hours and stress it will be hard to find something making less. Hell, when you put in a fraction of the extra hours at the new job as you did as a BI you’ll quickly move up. Prepare yourself mentally by reading Emerson and other success literature. Then pound the pavement and find something else. I can assure you, just beginning this will improve your mental attitude.
    “Always do what your are afraid to do.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

    October 18, 2013

    “McCaskill’s bill—cosponsored by Senator Jon Tester of Montana—improves oversight of the security clearance process by empowering the Office of Personnel Management to use resources from its Revolving Fund to audit and investigate contractors that conduct background checks.”

    http://www.fox14tv.com/story/23729414/mccaskill-urges-us-house-to-take-up-bipartisan-security-clearance-bill

    And if Jon and Claire were execs at Hollywood studios they’d know how to make Gigli into a quality movie. Just add more scenes. Oy vey!

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    Sorry, either I or autocorrect botched my Emerson quote:

    Always do what you are afraid to do. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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    I hope you’re wrong, Darrow but I agree with you, I don’t see significant change on the horizon.

    Anyone know when the next Senate hearing is?

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    The Senate hearing originally scheduled during the shutdown was rescheduled for next week. We’ll be posting an update that evening: https://www.hsgac.senate.gov/hearings/the-navy-yard-tragedy-examining-government-clearances-and-background-checks.

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    I caught the hearing this morning.

    They just don’t get it. They’re hung up on not getting full police reports and the GAO study that found 80 percent of the investigations were incomplete.

    Not once did anyone address the fact that police departments, employers, references, etc. can and do refuse to participate.

    The committee needs to get in front of it actual field agents and adjudicators because OPM management has failed to convey the real world problems with the investigative process.

    The D.C. bubble marches on.