A strong economy and unprecedented backlog at the National Background Investigations Bureau has made finding and hiring employees with security clearances a formidable challenge for both the Government and private contractors, especially in Washington DC.

According to Government Executive¹, there are more than 500,000 pending initial investigations and over 400,000 pending periodic reinvestigations at the NBIB, with many of those potential employees having to wait a year or more before being cleared to work.