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Goodbye SF-86? OMB approves new ‘Personnel Vetting Questionnaire’

The PVQ takes a new approach compared to the SF-86 on screening questions around marijuana use, mental health, foreign connections and other areas.

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Trump Classified Documents

When you leave service in national security, you just can’t go work anywhere.

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Report pushes agencies to focus on ‘candidate experience’ during security clearance process

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Congress, Biden administration continue push to reduce security clearance timeline

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‘This would be wild’: Officials lay out ambitious goals for federal employee vetting

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This undated aerial photo shows the Los Alamos National laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M. The federal agency that oversees the nation's nuclear weapons stockpile is expected this week to release a report on the best site option for the United States as it looks to ramp up production of the plutonium cores that trigger nuclear warheads. The contenders are the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and the Savannah River Site in South Carolina. At stake are hundreds of jobs and billions of dollars in federal funding to either revamp existing buildings or construct new factories. (The Albuquerque Journal via AP)

How China takes American know-how and technology right from under our noses

Scientists from China work on sensitive projects at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, then go back to help China with what they’ve learned.

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DCSA opens ‘front door’ to next-gen background investigation system

The introduction of “e-App” is a key development in an NBIS software project that’s considered the cornerstone of federal personnel vetting reforms.

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Why mental health issues don’t have to get in the way of security clearance

Mental health care is not an automatic disqualifier for national security clearances, and the way the Intelligence Community evaluates answers to mental health questions might be undergoing some revision.

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