Companies Work Around Costly Clearance Delays

A February 15 article (subscription required) in the Wall Street Journal reports some of the steps companies are taking to avoid the long wait times required for employees to acquire security clearances necessary for some government and military contracting work. Some large companies are acquiring smaller ones who already employee persons with security clearance. Expensive government programs are being delayed while employees sit idle or are assigned other duties.

According to a government report, in the first quarter of 2008, it took 118 days to process 80 percent of security clearances, compared to 106 days in the previous year.

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