{"id":34583,"date":"2021-05-26T20:21:49","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T20:21:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/05\/26\/new-background-investigation-initiative-will-include-everyone-by-end-of-2023\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T04:56:42","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T04:56:42","slug":"new-background-investigation-initiative-will-include-everyone-by-end-of-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/pentagon-congress\/2021\/05\/26\/new-background-investigation-initiative-will-include-everyone-by-end-of-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"New background investigation initiative will include everyone by end of 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency<\/a>\u2019s new program for continuously monitoring individuals with security clearances, Trusted Workforce 2.0, should have all agencies and contractors onboarded by the end of 2023, the agency\u2019s director, William Lietzau, said at a May 26 roundtable with the House Oversight and Reform Committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently, most federal employees and contractors who hold security clearances have to go through a reinvestigation every five to 15 years, depending on their clearance level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Not only does this reinvestigation interval run the risk of allowing someone who may develop a security compromise to continue to hold a clearance until their next reinvestigation, but it also contributes to the backlog of background investigations, as investigators must collect years of data at once to make a determination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Trusted Workforce 2.0 instead aims to have a clearance-holders undergo continuous vetting, meaning that investigation systems are continuously collecting data about individuals to evaluate their security risk.<\/p>\n\n\n\t