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The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) has successfully enrolled all Defense Department clearance holders—service members, civilians, and contractors, in total of 3.6 million people—in a continuous security vetting program.

Defense and military personnel are now a part of an automated "continuous vetting" program that will flag concerning behavior or circumstances as part of the security clearance process.

All Defense Department clearance holders are now under “continuous vetting” as part of a reform to the personnel security process that determines who should have access to classified information and secure facilities, the director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency said Tuesday.

The long-awaited change to the background investigations process will flag concerning information for further investigation.

The backlog of security clearance investigations has continued to drop from a 2018 high of 725,000 to 200,000, but agencies continue to struggle with reciprocity issues.

By Natalie Alms   The backlog of security clearance investigations has continued to drop from a 2018 high of 725,000 to a steady state inventory of 200,000, but agencies and contractors continue to struggle with reciprocity issues. The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency is in the process of developing the National Background Investigation Services (NBIS) to replace legacy background investigation IT systems. This IT system is part of the new Trusted Workforce 2.0 framework, meant ...

Industry and Congress say the executive branch has made real progress on the security clearance backlog in recent years, but they want to see the Defense…

Mayorkas, who was Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security in the Obama administration before returning to private legal practice during the Trump years, said the US had to do "a much better job" on cyber security.  The Department of Homeland Defenses Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) would need to shoulder a lot of that work, Mayorkas added. He would explore two programs to see if they could stop future cyber attacks: the Einstein network security program, and the Continuo...