Pentagon Halts Contractor Clearances. I’ve written about problems with security clearances before. I recommend reading the article for details, but the bottom line is this sort of failure requires Congressional investigation. A private company with the same sorts of operational disasters would be without clients and bankrupt by now. The Federal government justs plods along. The worst is that a private company without these kinds of disasters would have been bankrupted by now, and the Federal government would have to do so.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2006/05/clearance-backlog-gets-worse-ive.html