Security Clearance Background Investigation

Security clearance investigations are inquiries into an individual's loyalty, character, trustworthiness and reliability to ensure that he or she is eligible for access to national security information.

Suitability Background Investigation

Suitability investigations are inquiries into a person's identifiable character traits and conduct sufficient to decide whether an individual's employment or continued employment would or would not protect the integrity or promote the efficiency of the service.

Continuous Evaluation

CE, a personnel security investigative process, is part of the security clearance reform effort to modernize personnel security processes and increase the timeliness of information reviewed between periodic reinvestigation cycles. CE supplements and enhances, but does not replace, established personnel security processes by leveraging automated records checks to assist in the ongoing review of an individual’s eligibility for access to classified information or to hold a sensitive position.