They have numerous purposes, including preliminary legal judgments, to determine applicant eligibility, or to assess contenders' performance in competitions.
The term is used to refer to a panel of judges in the process of considering security clearances for the United States government.
The panel reviews information from a background investigation and a polygraph and decides whether to grant the clearance.
Adjudicators can be a medical review board that makes disability and retirement benefit decisions for Federal employees and military personnel.
[1] An adjudicator (often referred to as a "judge", "umpire", "arbiter", or more archaically as a "daysman"[2]), is a person who gives a critical evaluation of performances in competitions, festivals or talent shows, resulting in the award of marks, medals or prizes.