At the latest National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC) meeting, the Department of Energy (DOE) provided updated performance metrics for security clearance processing times. The new figures from the first two quarters of Fiscal Year 2025 give insight into how long it’s taking the DOE to process Top Secret and Secret clearances—including periodic reinvestigations (PR).
As in prior years, Top Secret clearances continue to take longer to process than Secret ones, and reinvestigations remain the most time-consuming. While the DOE made some modest gains in speeding up adjudications, overall processing times largely reflect the persistent complexities of handling high-level clearances tied to nuclear security and restricted data.
Source: Department of Energy Shares FY25 Q2 Security Clearance Processing Metrics - ClearanceJobs