In just a few months beginning mid-2013, the American people’s confidence in the federal government’s ability to administer security clearances was upended. First, cleared contractor Edward Snowden ...

Senior Airman Bernard Lee, USAF, Multinational Force–Iraq (MNF-I), plays the part of a contractor during a retinal scan demonstration at the MNF-I badging office. The scan is part of the security ...

The Defense Information Systems Agency is spearheading a continuous monitoring solution that it hopes will virtually eliminate the reinvestigation process for security clearance holders and reduce the ...

The security clearance process has tied the Trump administration in knots — and that is exactly what the bureaucrats running the White House personnel security office intended, said a lawyer who has ...

Lawmakers want to make the security clearance process more transparent and streamlined in an effort to shrink a backlog of more than 700,000 federal employees, applicants and contractors awaiting ...

Being denied a security clearance or having your security clearance revoked can have lasting effects that ripple through your personal and professional life. Most of the time, this can be avoided by ...

The federal intelligence and human resources communities are preparing a coming out party for the first major update to the security clearance process in some 50 years. For the last year, the ...