A federal contractor tasked with performing background checks on Department of Defense employees seeking high-level security clearances copped to submitting reams of bogus reports when she claimed to ...

The Department of Defence (DOD) needs to enhance the cybersecurity of its background investigation systems, according to a report published this week by the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The ...

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency sought a managed service provider amid ongoing efforts to enroll all federal employees in continuous vetting. Omni Federal has been awarded a $427 ...

MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 16, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Xcelerate Solutions, a defense and national security company, announced the acquisition of GDIT's background investigation assets. The transition of ...

Often security clearances are considered an overhead function barely gaining the mention or attention of senior leaders. But the spotlight was back on the security clearance process Monday when ...

The White House has quietly directed the FBI to halt the background check process for dozens of President Donald Trump's top staffers, and has transferred the process to the Pentagon, sources familiar ...

The possibility that national security background investigations are vulnerable to cyber-espionage could undermine the integrity of the verification system used to review more than 5 million ...

Background checks are one of those commodities you typically only realize are flawed when it’s too late, after someone who shouldn’t have been cleared is caught doing some nefarious deed. As Edward ...

WASHINGTON -- A cyberattack similar to previous hacker intrusions from China penetrated computer networks for months at USIS, the government's leading security clearance contractor, before the company ...