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NBIB confirms 700,000 security clearance backlog

NBIB confirms 700,000 security clearance backlog

September 7, 2017

Via: FCW
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A top official confirmed the government is working to whittle down a backlog of more than 700,000 security clearance applications, while streamlining and updating its background investigation process.

During a panel discussion at the Intelligence and National Security Summit in Washington, D.C., Charles Phalen, director of the National Background Investigations Bureau, placed much of the blame on the 2014 decision to terminate a contract with background investigation company USIS.

The Office of Personnel Management let the contract expire after the company was hit with multiple cyberattacks that left thousands of government employee records exposed.

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