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  • Security clearances: Personnel vetting: eligibility, investigations, adjudication, continuous vetting, reciprocity and the systems behind them.
  • DCSA and the NISP: The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency, facility clearances, the NISPOM and Industrial Security Letters.
  • CMMC and cybersecurity: The Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification, NIST SP 800-171, DFARS 252.204-7012 and controlled unclassified information.
  • Federal contracting: Acquisition rules and defense-contracting news that change what cleared contractors must do.
  • Insider threat and counterintelligence: Insider threat programs, espionage and mishandling cases, and counterintelligence advisories that matter to cleared facilities.
  • Policy and oversight: ODNI, executive orders, legislation, GAO and inspector-general findings that reshape the personnel and industrial security system.
  • Export control and CUI: ITAR, EAR, deemed exports and enforcement that touches cleared and CUI-handling contractors.