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Lead official on security clearance reform retires - Federal News Network

by Michele Sandiford
Tue, Jul 15, 2025 13:46 ET
in False Claims

  • The head of the effort to fix the security clearance process is retiring. David Cattler, the director of the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, is retiring after more than 35 years of federal service. Cattler will step down from his role on Sept. 30. He has been director of DCSA for almost 18 months. Before he retires, Cattler will complete a major reorganization of the agency, which will help further reduce the backlog of security clearances. As of May, DCSA said it has decreased the backlog by 17% in 2025 alone. Along with DCSA, Cattler served in various leadership roles in the intelligence community, including on the National Security Council, with the Defense Intelligence Agency and on the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The agency said a successor has not yet be named.
  • The Defense Department's Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office picked four vendors to provide the military with advanced AI tools. Under four separate contracts each with a $200 million ceiling, the services and defense agencies can award task orders to Anthropic, Google, OpenAI and xAI to develop agentic AI workflows across a variety of mission areas. The CDAO said these awards are part of the DoD's commercial-first approach to accelerating its adoption of AI.
  • The Supreme Court said the Trump administration can move ahead with its plans to lay off about 1,400 Department of Education employees. Lower courts are still assessing whether the administration’s downsizing efforts are legal, but...


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