The question most security clearance applicants ask after submitting their application is - how long is it going to take? And while both the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (which processes approximately 85% of all security clearance applications), and the Intelligence Community do actually release some version of their processing times averages, those times have always been only the fastest 90% of all applicants. But not anymore. New benchmarks will both include all applicants and cut prior goals nearly in half.

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