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security clearance reform
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Evan Lesser, president and founder of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch to discuss the state of the clearance job market and whether the federal government has made any progress in speeding up the security clearance process.
May 06, 2019 -
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Lawmakers introduced legislation to publish standards for granting, denying or revoking security clearances.
March 18, 2019 -
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Common standards across the suitability and security clearances processes may ease long-held frustrations from industry and the intelligence community.
October 30, 2018 -
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A former background investigator pleaded guilty to a charge stemming from her falsification of work on background investigations of federal employees and contractors.
July 19, 2018 -
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What is the state of the clearance jobs market in 2018? Find out when Evan Lesser, founder and president of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week's Fed Access.
June 14, 2018 -
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The President's Management Agenda describes 14 cross-agency priority goals that the Trump administration will focus on in the coming years.
March 20, 2018 -
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Evan Lesser, founder and president of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week’s Fed Access to discuss the security clearance backlog and how it is impacting the government workforce. January 19, 2018
January 11, 2018 How bad is the security clearance backlog and what can be done to improve it? Find out when Evan Lesser, founder and president of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch on this week’s Fed Access. December 29, 2017
December 27, 2017-
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The Office of Personnel Management says it's spent the past eight years working within the confines of current laws and regulations to modernize the federal personnel system and help agencies better recruit, hire and retain talented employees. But as the Obama administration winds down, OPM suggested that future administrations should more seriously discuss reform to those civil service regulations.
January 05, 2017 -
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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.
December 27, 2016 -
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The investigations process is to blame for higher security clearance processing times at the beginning of 2016 and end of 2015. Challenges with culture, resources and legal questions are also pushing agencies farther and farther off schedule in standing up their own insider threat programs.
April 01, 2016 -
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The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee questioned the administration on its new federal security clearance reform plan. Members of the committee wanted further details about the Office of Personnel Management's role in the new process, as well as the timeline, funding, and the authorities that DoD would have under the National Background Investigations Bureau.
February 25, 2016 -
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The Federal government’s security clearance system is outdated and needs to be replaced, but fixing it is going to take time because the government is still years away from fully developing a continuous evaluation process that can replace today’s once-every-five-years investigations.
January 29, 2016 -
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A new agency could take ownership of the federal security clearance process, a former federal counterintelligence official said. The organization, called the National Investigative Service Agency, would also have a new director.
December 11, 2015
