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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.