The DOD has tapped William Lietzau to lead the Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency as its first permanent director.

The backlog of background checks — typically more than 200 days for most new hires who need a clearance — has ripple effects throughout the region, according to…

A notorious backlog would get some tech solutions, and the intelligence community would have more flexibility with its workforce under the House-passed intelligence authorization bill.

The Defense Security Service has changed its name to the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency and has assumed all federal background investigations.

Perspecta Enterprise Solutions will create a scalable security enterprise architecture and data services prototype for the National Background Investigation Service.

An executive order is the latest step in the White House's efforts to marginalize the Office of Personnel Management ahead of its desired closure.

But don't expect decisions on who receives or loses their federal clearance to be made by machines, said the head of the National Background Investigation Service.

The Pentagon wants its SABER.

DISA will transfer the "authority, direction, and control" of its National Background Investigation Service to the Defense Security Service.

The intelligence community needs a new game plan to quell a backlog of unprocessed security clearances, and officials think new data standards could help.