The great disruption of a global pandemic hit every industry – but the national security workforce was largely inoculated from the largest setbacks. Many trends emerging in the cleared workforce today ...

In Nov. 2020, Jack Teixeira wrote a letter to the local police chief asking him to reconsider allowing him to own guns. The Dighton, Mass., police had denied the 18-year-old’s two previous requests ...

Often security clearances are considered an overhead function barely gaining the mention or attention of senior leaders. But the spotlight was back on the security clearance process Monday when ...

For years, the Government Accountability Office has harped on the necessity for security clearance reform. There’s no oversight, no guidelines, the office has repeatedly argued. This week, with the ...

It is FBI policy to share with law enforcement personnel pertinent information regarding terrorism. In the past, the primary mechanism for such information sharing was the Joint Terrorism Task Force ...

We often are consulted on security clearance matters by federal employees and government contractors in the security clearance process. In many cases, the security clearance application, investigation ...

Americans increasingly feel comfortable seeking mental health care, a beneficial change that should spur U.S. national-security and industry leaders to remove stigmas that have long caused clearance ...

The Office of Personnel and Management has made progress on hardening its systems and databases used for conducting security clearances, but a substantial backlog of investigations persists, according ...

The federal intelligence and human resources communities are preparing a coming out party for the first major update to the security clearance process in some 50 years. For the last year, the ...