October 2009
CIA Investing in Company to Monitor Your Blog and Tweets?
Per this new article on Wired, the CIA is using its relationship with In-Q-Tel to buy into a company called Visible Technologies. Visible Technologies is a software company that specializes in monitoring the social web, including Twitter, blogs, Facebook, YouTube, and others. In-Q-Tel says it wants Visible to keep track
OPM Submits New Version of SF86 for Review
On September 30, 2009 the Federal Register announced that the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has submitted a proposed revision of Standard Form 86 (SF86), Questionnaire for National Security Positions, for 30-day public review and comment. The current version of the SF86 (July 2008) has only been in use for
2009 Security Clearance Salary Survey
The 2009 Security Clearance Salary Survey of 5,023 security-cleared job seekers conducted by ClearanceJobs.com has been released! See how you compare with your colleagues! After you complete this short survey, you will be provided with the most current salary survey results in an 8 page [pdf] report for free! Get
Applying for Security Clearance and have Delinquent Debt?
What should you do… 1. Start correcting the problem immediately, document all efforts, and keep a chronology of activities. 2. Get credit reports from all three national credit reporting companies and use the reports to make a list of all your creditors, but understand its limits. Things that sometimes don’t