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Continuous vetting for trust and security clearance is easier said than done

Growing numbers of federal employees are about to come under what’s known as continuous vetting. Public databases automatically monitored by security officials…

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(Photo courtesy of NIST)An employee swipes their personal identity verification (PIV) card

‘Continuous vetting’ procedures will soon apply to more feds governmentwide

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FILE - In this Sept. 19, 2013 file photo, military personnel walks past an entrance to the Washington Navy Yard in Washington. Two years after the shooting at the Washington Navy Yard, families whose loved ones died are filing multimillion dollar lawsuits against companies they say could have prevented it from happening.  (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

One decade after Navy Yard shooting, major changes made to ‘insider threat’ approach

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Congress, Biden administration continue push to reduce security clearance timeline

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‘This would be wild’: Officials lay out ambitious goals for federal employee vetting

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(AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)An aerial view of the Pentagon, in Arlington, Virginia.

Pentagon security agency looks to expand ‘continuous vetting’ beyond DoD, add more data sources

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Agencies on deadline to enroll security clearance holders in continuous vetting

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Trusted Workforce and federal background checks initiatives have a reliable home — now what?

No matter how you look at it, the process for investigating people and granting them security clearance has been a hairball for decades.

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OPM details core values behind coming security clearance reforms with new policy doctrine

With the publication of a new federal personnel vetting core doctrine, the Trump administration has outlined the basic principles and core values that…

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Security clearance processing times are down, continuous evaluation enrollment is up

Government is closer to meeting its security clearance processing goals for the first time in years, due, in large part, to the steady rise in continuous evaluation enrollment.

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