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DOD: "security clearances do not 'expire'".

Set-Aside Alert, August, 2006

The Defense Department has ordered its personnel to continue recognizing contractors' security clearances even if they are overdue for renewal.

"Budget issues within the Department suspended industry clearances processing for several weeks," Robert Andrews, deputy undersecretary for counterintelligence and security, wrote in a memo. "Due to the suspension, many of the Periodic Reinvestigations [required to update a clearance] were not submitted on time."

"Personnel security clearances do not 'expire," he added.

Rep. Rob Simmons (R-CT) raised the issue with the Pentagon. He said some employees of contractor Electric Boat in his district had been denied access when they tried to enter other defense facilities, and security officials told them...

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