The number of SCIFs increased a ton, especially in contractors being allowed to have their own SCSI rooms. The number of clearances also went up a lot, and the cycle time on granting a clearance got much faster. Overall some things got relaxed, other things got stricter, scale increased everywhere.
IMO the biggest factor in the increase is just the ever-increasing DoD budget
Yes and no.
CUI was created: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Controlled_Unclassified_Inform...
The number of SCIFs increased a ton, especially in contractors being allowed to have their own SCSI rooms. The number of clearances also went up a lot, and the cycle time on granting a clearance got much faster. Overall some things got relaxed, other things got stricter, scale increased everywhere.
IMO the biggest factor in the increase is just the ever-increasing DoD budget