A January 27, 2008 WashingtonPost.com article reported, “Global markets may be writhing and the U.S. economy teetering at the brink of recession, but for many of the nation’s largest defense firms, the good times keep going.” “We are about as far removed from the credit risk and those sorts of

A January 14, 2008 article in the Ashbury Park Press quoted Rep. Frank J. Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) saying that the plan does not “pass the laugh test” and Rep. Rush D. Holt (D-NJ) calling it “wishful thinking.” Since only about 30% of the employees of Fort Monmouth, NJ will move

Some major defense contractors feel that no significant improvement has been made this year in security clearance processing times. “Despite the expected need next year for more IT workers with high-level security clearances, human resources executives agree the government logjam of clearing new hires hasn’t improved much this year; nor

In testimony before congress in September the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), Mike McConnell, announced that: We have  (in conjunction with DoD) designed a transformed clearance process and developed a plan to assess the validity of this process. The comprehensive reform of the security clearance process remains our ultimate goal