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DCSA details new plan for next-gen background investigation system

DCSA's new plan for NBIS includes a 36-month product roadmap. The goal is to retire legacy background investigation systems, including PIPs, by fiscal 2027.

Defense News

DCSA ‘tiger team’ digs into growing background investigations backlog

Federal Newscast

Overhaul of security clearance and personnel vetting process enters new phase

Defense

DCSA to publish implementation plan for background investigation IT system

Management

Some expert tips for getting through your security clearance

Intelligence Community

‘DOOBIE’ Act looks to ease security clearance restrictions on past marijuana use

Federal Report

Over 1,200 interviews and 400 job offers later, DHS wraps up two-day career expo

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Defense News

Exclusive New DCSA director sees a data-driven future for security clearances and more

National Background Investigation Services

Inside the IC

Goodbye SF-86? OMB approves new 'Personnel Vetting Questionnaire'

Trump Classified Documents

Management

When you leave service in national security, you just can't go work anywhere.

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Workforce

Average security-clearance-processing speed, hits a speed bump

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Workforce

An outside look at security-clearance process, reveals some flaws

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Inside the IC

Report pushes agencies to focus on 'candidate experience' during security clearance process

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Federal Newscast

Mental-health struggles remain concern for those seeking security clearances, survey shows

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Defense News

Joint insider threat office among Pentagon’s solutions to Discord leaks

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Ask the CIO

Congress, Biden administration continue push to reduce security clearance timeline

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Federal Newscast

Another attempt to lessen the effect prior marijuana use has on getting a security clearance

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Federal Newscast

Security clearance holders, be on the lookout for latest phishing attempt

Hiring/Retention

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

This undated aerial photo shows the Los Alamos National laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is expected this week to release a report on the best site option for the United States as it looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads. The contenders are the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. At stake are hundreds of jobs and billions of dollars in federal funding to either revamp existing buildings or construct new factories. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

Technology

How China takes American know-how and technology right from under our noses

Inside the IC

DCSA opens ‘front door’ to next-gen background investigation system

Intelligence Community

Why mental health issues don't have to get in the way of security clearance

Intelligence Community

Is the security clearance process biased? Intel leaders aim to find out

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