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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 to consolidate the security clearance process and address problems plaguing the process of obtaining...

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 Defense's 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 Continuous Diagnostic and Mitigation program. Haines, former Deputy Director of the CIA under Obama, also c...