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  • Continuous Evaluation Rollout Must Be Fast-Tracked after OPM Data Breach, Clearance Holders Must Address Problems Faster

    Even before hackers, presumably from China, stole from the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) sensitive personal information for millions of current and former federal employees and contractors, the government had been pushing to more frequently put security clearance holders u… more

  • Will Security Clearance Processing Lengthen

    As many of you have probably heard in the news, USIS, the company contracted by the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to conduct background investigations, has lost its contract with the agency. For those who are unfamiliar with how background investigations are processed… more

  • GAO Report on Personnel Security Clearances

    The General Accounting Office (GAO) Report on Personnel Security Clearances released last Thursday does lots of finger pointing. The bad guys are the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI). This is a very high-level report so it’… more

  • The 5 Most Popular ClearedJobs.Net Stories of 2012

    As 2012 comes to a close, we’re reviewing our blog stories that generated the most readers this year. America loves lists, so those tend to be the most popular articles. That is unless you throw out something controversial such as whether your email service provider makes yo… more

  • What’s Happening in the DoD World of Security Clearance Processing

    Laura Hickman, Director of the Defense Security Service (DSS, aka the agency formerly known as DISCO) spoke at the recent annual meeting of the Chesapeake chapter of the National Classification Management Society, (NCMS aka the Society of Industrial Security Professionals). NC… more