INSA

Industry says security clearance transfer paves way for long-awaited modernization

Industry says the President’s recent security clearance transfer brings promise for long-awaited modernization to the entire personnel vetting process.

Workforce

IARPA working on ways to protect AI training data from malicious tampering

Artificial Intelligence

DoD photo by Sgt. Amber I. Smith

DoD to reorganize, create new security clearance organization

Reorganization

Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence

Common suitability, security clearance standards are coming within a year, ODNI says

Workforce

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White House, Pentagon cyber strategies give more leeway to fight back

Intelligence community sees ‘most promise’ in AI’s capabilities for analysts

Artificial Intelligence

FILE - In this April 2, 2017, file photo, the White House is lit with blue lights in honor of World Autism Awareness Day in Washington. Top U.S. tech executives and researchers are gathering at a White House summit, Thursday, May 10, 2018, to press Trump administration officials on investing in artificial intelligence and crafting policies they hope will strengthen the economy without displacing jobs. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

SSA bid protest win demonstrates power of acquisition to protect the supply chains

Reporter's Notebook

Industry seeks easy fixes to lengthy, redundant vetting process for DHS contractors

Workforce

If cyber threat sharing is a team sport, DHS needs more teammates

Reporter's Notebook

Intel community still doesn’t know how it should fix security clearance problem

Defense

NBIB to test new security clearance process for federal employees

Same obstacles plague small and large agencies in setting up insider threat programs

The Office of Personnel Management was the sixth agency to achieve final operating capability on an insider threat program. But OPM is among the few agencies…

Management

Erosion of public trust biggest long-term impact of OPM breaches, experts say

Current and former counterintelligence officials say there is no known evidence so far that a victim of the Office of Personnel Management’s cyber breaches…

Workforce

OPM lays groundwork for security clearance reform, as processing times grow longer

Management

Federal employees and contractors waited hundreds of days in some cases for a security clearance in 2016, but the Office of Personnel Management spent much of the year putting the policy pieces in place for improvement. Key stakeholders in the Performance Accountability Council developed an IT plan for the new background investigation system and issued business rules for adjudicating some cases.