Americans increasingly feel comfortable seeking mental health care, a beneficial change that should spur U.S. national-security and industry leaders to remove stigmas that have long caused clearance ...

The great disruption of a global pandemic hit every industry – but the national security workforce was largely inoculated from the largest setbacks. Many trends emerging in the cleared workforce today ...

With the new Biden Administration beginning in January, 2021 it is important to look at the issue of who can qualify to hold a position in the new Administration. For several years (e.g. Bush 1, ...

The Office of Personnel Management credits its advanced use of IT tools for cutting the time it takes to process federal personnel security clearances. The Office of Personnel Management credits its ...

We often are consulted on security clearance matters by federal employees and government contractors in the security clearance process. In many cases, the security clearance application, investigation ...

In Nov. 2020, Jack Teixeira wrote a letter to the local police chief asking him to reconsider allowing him to own guns. The Dighton, Mass., police had denied the 18-year-old’s two previous requests ...

Say the words “security clearance” in a conversation with defense contractors, and the vast majority has a tale to tell of long waits and missed opportunities. Those two words have people in ...

If you work in national security – and let’s face it, much of government – navigating the security clearance process is a key part of the career journey. At ClearanceJobs, we frequently come across ...

A new study fielded by Leidos has found stigmas, misinformation and misunderstandings around mental health issues persist across the intelligence community and in the security clearance process. Those ...

The security clearance process is broken, plagued by backlogs and delays that threaten the homeland security of the United States. A recent 41.5 percent decrease in the backlog of security clearances, ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Office of Personnel Management on Tuesday handed off its National Background Investigations Bureau to the Defense Department, ...

Leidos has released a new study on mental health stigma within the Intelligence Community (IC) and implications for the security clearance investigation process. The research shows that despite ...