Tag Archives: security clearance

The National Security Space Association has released its recommendations to help mitigate the economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the space industrial base, SpaceNews reported Monday. NSSA's recommendations are classified into three areas: fiscal policy and funding; contracting and acquisition policy; workforce security and personnel development.

David Berteau, president and CEO of the Professional Services Council and two-time Wash100 winner, has said that the government should focus more on addressing its backlog of security clearance adjudications, Federal News Network reported Monday.

A National Defense Industrial Association report says the health of the defense industrial base received a passing “C“ rating “but with a worrying downward trend“ driven by threats to intellectual property, cyber vulnerabilities and declining production inputs.

The GovCon industry is calling on the government to pursue sharing of insider threat data about cleared employees with contractors as agencies prepare to ramp up their vetting and continuous evaluation initiatives as part of the administration's security clearance modernization efforts, Federal News Network reported Friday.

Booz Allen Hamilton has implemented a new approach to evaluating its workforce as the government continues to update its security clearance and employee vetting procedures, Federal News Network reported Friday.

Dave Turner, president and CEO of Hitachi Vantara Federal, said the company is building a workforce composed of former government employees. It is also procuring cloud solutions and is exploring existing customer requirements to become “a credible end-to-end data services provider,“ Federal News Network reported Tuesday.

The U.S. Defense Digital Service is seeking vendors that could provide a new partially automated and cloud-based prototype system for security clearance processes.

Executive Mosaic is pleased to introduce David Berteau, CEO of the Professional Services Council, as an inductee into the 2019 Wash100 “” Executive Mosaic's annual selection of the most influential voices in the government contracting arena “” for leading the efforts to improve the government's procurement and funding issues. This marks the second Wash100 award for Berteau in the last three years.  

The Department of Defense has issued a request for information on potential contractors that could apply agile development methods to manage a new information technology system built to facilitate the background investigation process, Bloomberg Government reported Friday. The RFI comes as the Defense Security Service prepares to assume responsibilities over …

Eric Fanning, president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, has said there are four ways the federal government should adopt to address the security clearance backlog and one of those is to implement a “uniform digital application record.“ Fanning wrote in a Defense One article published Tuesday that the …

Industry stakeholders have participated in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence's efforts to come up with a framework of common standards designed to help agencies assess an individual's suitability for a security clearance, Federal News Network reported Tuesday. Sue Gordon, principal deputy director of national intelligence, said Tuesday …

Companies such as Lockheed Martin and General Dynamics have initiated measures to continue development work on defense contracts amid the rising security clearance backlog, The Wall Street Journal reported Saturday. The National Background Investigations Bureau said the number of individuals seeking security clearances has climbed to nearly 500K in the …

Some industry representatives have called on Congress to help the Department of Homeland Security standardize and streamline the vetting and security clearance process for government contracting personnel, Federal News Radio reported Wednesday. Industry stakeholders told lawmakers Tuesday at a House Homeland Security’s oversight and management efficiency subpanel hearing that DHS …

Engility CEO Lynn Dugle has said the company has started to pilot continuous evaluation initiatives in an effort to address issues related to security clearances. “What we know from a community is about 80 percent of people who lose clearances do so for financial reasons,“ Dugle told Defense One in an interview published …

MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates has signed a security control agreement with the Defense Department in a push to pursue opportunities in the U.S. government and defense markets. The agreement would help MDA seek security clearance for its operations at its Palo Alto, California-based facility as part of the implementation of the company's …