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Defense Department Making Security Clearance Progress, But Reciprocity, IT Issues Remain

In 2020, after Congress handed all security clearance investigations work over to the Defense Department, the once enormous backlog of pending investigations finally reached a “steady state” of 200,000, down from a peak pileup of more than 720,000.

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