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Encryption is coming, although no one can quite say when. As part of the Defense Department’s role in building a new IT system for background investigations, it will encrypt the data it handles with techniques appropriate to a national security system, officials said Friday during a hastily arranged pre-blizzard conference call.
The National Background Investigations Bureau will have its own director, who will report to the Office of Personnel Management. The administration says it doesn't have a specific timeline for implementing the new security clearance program or standing up the new agency, but changes will come in incremental stages.
Initial secret and top-secret cases took an average of 95 and 179 days to process, respectively, by the end of last fiscal year, according to a fourth quarter update on Performance.gov.
Federal News Radio counts down our 10 most-read Defense and Intelligence Community stories from 2015.
I don't understand the repeated concern about harvesting social media for clues to possible security breaches. The whole social media scene resembles nothing so much as a platform for self-revelation.
Departments will soon begin to randomly investigate security clearance holders twice every five years.
The Office of Personnel Management's watchdog says a quality assessment conducted by the agency on questionable background investigations has some problems of its own.
The House Committee on Homeland Security favorably recommended more than a dozen bills aimed at strengthening national security and improving management and oversight within DHS.
The law enforcement response to what turned out to have been a false alarm at the Washington Navy Yard last week was quite different than the actual active shooter situation in 2013.
Two pieces of legislation to repair the security clearance process are now one piece. Senator Jon Tester, a member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, and several of his colleagues are combining the Security Clearance Accountability Reform and Enhancement Act and the Preventing Conflicts of Interest Act. On In Depth with Francis Rose, he said one bill will solve both problems.
A brief look at the latest happenings in Congress this week
The Department of Housing and Urban Development hired 1,000 new employees in 2014. The new workers are helping the agency reverse a downward trend around morale.
For the past six months, the Director of National Intelligence has been trying to determine whether the government should do Google searches on people who hold security clearances.
An Office of Personnel Management official said Tuesday that agency officials decided not to renew USIS' background investigations and support contracts.