Category: Department of Defense
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Security clearance lapses stemmed from Washington’s emphasis on speed over quality
By Rebecca LaFlure Center for Public Integrity Efforts by the government to fix a notable problem sometimes create a new mess that turns out to be as insidious and troublesome as the first, or even worse. This is what happened when Washington attempted to improve the way its security agencies vetted hundreds of thousands of…
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Veterans disability claims languish while billions are wasted on records system upgrade
By Hannah Winston News21 The Department of Veterans Affairs and the Department of Defense spent at least $1.3 billion during the last four years trying unsuccessfully to develop a single electronic health-records system between the two departments — leaving veterans’ disability claims to continue piling up in paper files across the country, a News21 investigation…