Federal Government Policy and Business

Half of Security Clearance Holders Are Under Continuous Evaluation

Government Executive: The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency continues to make progress on security clearance processing times and enrolling new applicants into its continuous evaluation program. In numbers released for the National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee, DCSA shows 2.2 million total security clearance holders enrolled in CE—that’s nearly half of the total security cleared population, and over two-thirds of the Defense Department’s clearance population, based on the most recently released figures. (The Office of the Director of National Intelligence has not made a version of its annual report on security clearance determinations releasable since FY 2017.)

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