Ideas alone won’t improve the federal security clearance backlog

Ok, not saying...but I retired from Fed Gov in 2014...and sounds like it slowed down.

“Some quick facts: Since 2014, the time it takes to obtain a clearance has more than doubled. In our industry, the average time it takes to get a TS/SCI clearance, a top secret clearance, is over a year. The time it takes to get a secret clearance is eight months,” said Kevin Phillips, president and CEO of ManTech.
“Since the end of 2014, we estimate that approximately 10,000 positions required from the contractor community in support of the intelligence community have gone unfilled due to these delays.”