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Lawmakers push intelligence community to speed up hiring timelines

Congress wants intelligence agencies to work toward hiring most employees within six months.

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New clearance ideas aim to make national security workforce more mobile, diverse

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OMB memo directs agencies to study federal customer experience barriers

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OMB sees 2022 as ‘most significant year’ for security clearance reform

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

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Pentagon security agency aims to get background investigations software on track

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Industry urges ramp-up of insider threat info sharing with security clearance changes on the way

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Warner tells ODNI, OPM to get moving on major security clearance reforms

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The future of continuous evaluation is just about here, and it has a different name

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Pressure’s on security clearance adjudications facilities, as investigation backlog drops

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How NBIB slashed the security clearance backlog by 300,000 in nearly a year

A healthy inventory of pending security clearances is at last within reach, as the National Background Investigations Bureau prepares to transfer its resources,…

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‘Greatest risk we have is doing nothing:’ Trump administration details case for OPM reorg

The Trump administration has announced more details behind its proposed reorganization of the Office of Personnel Management, a week before the plan is…

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NBIB prepping people, contracts and IT ahead of security clearance transfer to DoD

The National Background Investigations Bureau is working out the details of the upcoming transfer of the governmentwide security clearance portfolio, and the people, resources and IT that come with it, to the Defense Department.

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