Contractors Said to Pad Cleared Roster

In a May 25 letter to the Washington Post, a reader says that government contractors put in for security clearance more candidates than necessary, clogging the system and causing delays in clearance processing:

All too often, cleared defense contractors pad their access rosters with employees who do not require security clearances to perform their official duties, and this in turn drives up the number of clearances that clog an already inefficient clearance-access process…

Contractors benefit by having a large pool of workers to draw on, but many workers go through the arduous process of getting top-secret clearances and never work a single minute on a top-secret project….

Filed Under: Procedures, Career