Fixing the clearance bottleneck: Cut red tape, not capabilities

Fixing the clearance bottleneck: Cut red tape, not capabilities

Every year, the federal government loses hundreds of millions of dollars to a problem hiding in plain sight: redundant clearance transfer processes. Across national security agencies, highly qualified industry professionals with active Top Secret/Sensitive Compartmented Information (TS/SCI) clearances are regularly delayed from starting new assignments, not due to security concerns, but because of outdated and inconsistent administrative require…

OMB Looks to Cut the Red Tape Around AI

The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum to executive agencies in April following Executive Order 14179, Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence. In the memorandum, OMB directs agencies to adopt a “forward leaning and pro-innovation approach that takes advantage of this technology to help shape the future of federal operations.” OMB tasks agency leaders with reducing bureaucracy for more timely deployme…