security clearance

Adjudicating security clearances isn’t an easy job. It requires personal integrity, and offers a variety of challenges. A contributor recently outlined the some of the requirements of the job, offering a glimpse into the other side of the security clearance investigation process. Below is an excerpt from the article. Read

Last week’s Senate hearing on security clearance reform focused on defense contractors and necessary reforms to prevent another Aaron Alexis from falling through the cracks. Several issues are of specific interest to the background investigator community, including proposals to shorten the length of time between periodic reinvestigations; improving technology and

Yesterday the Wall Street Journal published a scathing review of the security clearance investigation process at US Investigations Services, LLC.

Pending changes to personnel security policy have been released via the published minutes of the last NISPPAC meeting.