Government Warms to Continuous Monitoring of Personnel With Clearances
By Charles S. Clark
July 10, 2017
Software that scours public records for potential red flags gains traction as officials wrestle with a serious security clearance backlog.
Days after Navy contractor Aaron Alexis murdered 12 people during a shooting rampage at the Washington Navy Yard on Sept. 16, 2013, Pentagon officials acknowledged they had neglected to follow up on a Rhode Island police report the previous month showing that Alexis, who died in a shootout with police, had complained of hearing voices. That turned out to be just one of many red flags in Alexis’ background that Navy officials and security clearance investigators were not aware of prior to the tragedy.
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