BRAC Impacting Security Clearance Processing
It seems BRAC (the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure) is impacting just about everything these days – and security clearance adjudication hasn’t escaped the hit. At the heart of the matter is personnel – with 10 Department of Defense Central Adjudication Facilities moving to a joint location at Fort Meade, Md., expect some growing pains.
Five CAFs are already located within a 3-mile radius of the Pentagon, and not far from their new facility at Fort Meade. The problem will come from the Defense Industrial Security Clearance Office (DISCO) and the Defense Office of Hearings and Appeals (DOHA) personnel transferring from Columbus, Ohio. Many personnel from those facilities won’t move to the Washington, D.C. area and the process for recruiting, hiring, training and certifying new personnel security specialists can be a lengthy one. As many as 80 percent of DISCO workers aren’t expected to make the move and with a competitive hiring environment in the Fort Meade area (we have hundreds of open positions around Fort Meade posted at ClearanceJobs.com) they face challenges in filling their open positions.
What you can expect is a longer than usual processing time for pending security clearances and additions to the adjudication backlog.
Read the full story here, and tell us if you’ve noticed delays with the adjudication process.
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Don’t worry, they’ll figure out a way to blame the backlog on the Investigators.
I’m sure it will be a ‘quality’ issue.
This was inevitable–usual government think tank morons who continually find a way to dork things up.
I can hear it–Hey things have been on-track lately, let’s change the process to see how backlogged we can get. Will be like 2007-2009, when I had about an average of 100 cases going at any one time.
Plus with the current political climate, no more hiring, pay freezes and Congress wanting to slash benefits, I’m sure productivity will go through the roof!!!
Yup, pay raises do not seem to be in the cards for us contractors either. Can’t bid into the contract and have to pay millions to so-called board members, who have done nothing for any company, but suck us dry of potential raises.
Yup, pay raises do not seem to be in the cards for us contractors either. Can’t bid into the contract and have to pay millions to so-called board members, who have done nothing for any company, but suck us dry of potential raises.
Sorry–I thought I was on the old JobVent 🙂
Oh, the days of Job Vent…sigh…good things never last! That’s where I used to get most of the good 411.
RIP Job Vent for sure.
Maybe I’ll start one up. I could become wealthy with all the people wanting to vent in this line of work!!!!
I’m a contractor and currently waiting for a clearance for a position with the NSA (as a contractor). I’ve been in adjudication since Dec 2010. My question is: Is DISCO handling the adjudication or NSA?
Waiting in NoVA: NSA
I loved Job Vent. Our upper management hated it and seemed to always get e-mails trying to contradict what was being said on Job Vent. Another site that that is needed.