2014 Winter Security Clearance Decisions It's important to know that most security clearance applications are cleared, but some applicants get rejected.
Reviews Recommend Changes in Installation Security The panel recommends that the Defense Department replace the underlying premise behind installation and personnel security.
Tester Will 'Remain Vigilant' on Clearance Review Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) released this statement after the Office of Management and Budget released its review of the...
Tax Dollars Drained: the Underground Bureaucracy The facility that processes background investigations for security clearances now costs more than $1 billion annually.
Clearance Checks: US Senator Reacts to Watchdogs U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill pledged to continue her push to strengthen security clearance background checks.
2014 Spring Security Clearance Decisions Here are a few examples of security clearance applicants who didn't quite make it, who did and the reasons why.
CID Launches Online Application Portal CID agents are sworn federal officers, responsible for investigating felony-level crime where there is an Army nexus.
Secret Service Wants to Be the No. 1 E-Crime Deterrent The head of the agency's Criminal Investigations Division speaks about the evolution of USSS global cybercrime fighting...
Future Polygraphs May Be Conducted by Robots A new study has determined that computers may be able to deliver and analyze polygraph tests as well as any human.
Tester Takes Tax-Delinquent Contractors to Task Holding a security clearance means being responsible not just for yourself, but for your country.
Portrait of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee with Slave Rehung at West Point The reinstallation marks the latest effort by the Trump administration to reverse the work of a congressionally mandated...
How the Men on a Navy Submarine Survived After Sinking 240 Feet in the Atlantic Trapped 240 feet beneath the surface of the Atlantic Ocean, Lt. Oliver Naquin could not ensure the crew of the USS Squalus...
All Services Now Issue Form DD214-1 to Departing Reservists The military's reserve components now issue departing reservists a new record that summarizes their periods of active and...
From Jackson to McKinley: What Trump's Shift of Presidential Hero Says About His Evolving Goals Trump's shift, rather than merely swapping one infatuation for another, demonstrates how his mindset and priorities have...
Randy 'Duke' Cunningham, Naval Aviator and Corrupt Appropriator, Dies at 83 Cunningham, a California Republican, joined the Navy at age 25 and during the Vietnam War became the first “ace,” an honor...