DCSA’s Identity Crisis, Congressional Scrutiny, and GAO’s Stark Warnings: Where Personnel Vetting Reform Stands

At a pivotal congressional hearing today, the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) laid bare more than technological challenges. It revealed a deeper struggle: an agency grappling with its purpose while trying to deliver on the most consequential reform in federal security clearance history. Justin Overbaugh, Acting Director of DCSA, appeared before the House Committee …