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		<title>Maryland Senate Proposes Tax Credit for Security Clearance Expenses</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:21:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Henderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Maryland State Senator Roger Manno and 27 of his Senate colleagues have proposed a State income tax credit for costs incurred to obtain federal security clearances. The bill (SB296) would require “the Governor of Maryland to make a $6,000,000 appropriation in FY2014 and FY21015 for the tax credit, applying the Act to all taxable years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Contract Seeks to Streamline Defense Department Security Clearance Process</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jan 2012 15:47:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A $39 million task order contract awarded this week to CACI International Inc. includes software engineering and integration services for the Defense Logistics Agency’s security clearance process. Dan Allen, CACI President of U.S. Operations, said, &#8220;With this new task order to support the Department of Defense, CACI will directly enhance the nation&#8217;s ability to ensure that only the highest quality [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trial of Wikileaks Suspect Raises Clearance Questions</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Dec 2011 22:29:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At a military hearing of Pfc. Bradley Manning, accused of leaking thousands of classified documents to the website Wikileaks, a major issue being presented by the defense team is whether Manning should have had access to sensitive information in the first place. Described by his defense team as a troubled soldier dealing with gender identity [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Failing a Polygraph Alone Won&#8217;t Cost You a Security Clearance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Dec 2011 20:27:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) analyst who lost his job and his security clearance in 2009 has reached a settlement. John Dullahan was never informed of the reason for losing his job due to the Pentagon’s decision to invoke a national security clause which allows it to keep the reason for firing private, and eliminates [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Going Rogue Could Pose Security Clearance Problems</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 20:28:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A civilian Marine Corps advisor who made waves for repeated calls to increase the number of Mine-Resistant-Ambush-Protected (MRAP) vehicles in theater has gotten his job – and his security clearance – back. Franz Gayl was relieved of his job and had his security clearance suspended last year, after being accused of using an unauthorized flash [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Expedited Airport Security May Be New Security Clearance Perk</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Expedited security screening at airports may be possible for individuals with security clearances, said TSA Administrator John Pistole.  In an address before George Washington University’s Homeland Security Policy Institute, Pistole said that he was working with the director of national intelligence to explore the possibility. Frequent fliers are no strangers to the long lines and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPM Issues New Rule for Public Trust Investigations</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:28:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In an OPM rule finalized this week, agencies will have to reinvestigate employees in public trust positions every five years. The rule was initially proposed in December of 2009 but has taken two years to implement. In the review, some criticized the need for or effectiveness of the periodic investigations themselves, as well as the [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>State Department Official Protests Security Clearance Suspension</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 15:57:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Writing a book criticizing the way your organization does its job and writing a critical blog post linking to a classified document on Wikileaks may seem like a good idea, but it has proven a good way to get your security clearance suspended for Peter Van Buren. Van Buren, a State Department foreign service officer, recently [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>27</slash:comments>
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		<title>OPM Issues New Security Clearance Investigation Guidelines</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Oct 2011 12:32:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>admin</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[While we often talk broadly about the time it takes to process security clearances, the investigation itself is the heart of security clearance adjudication. After several years of working to prevent duplication of efforts and the lengthy delays in transferring clearances between agencies or reinvestigating previously investigated individuals, the new guidelines seem to take a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>A Security Clearance Isn&#8217;t an Unalienable Right</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/getting-updating-a-clearance/a-security-clearance-isnt-an-unaliable-right/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=a-security-clearance-isnt-an-unaliable-right</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 07 Oct 2011 10:18:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week a budget analyst at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency filed a lawsuit against the NGA, seeking reinstatement of his Top Secret/SCI security clearance, it having been revoked after his union with an Islamic women with a number of affiliations with groups of &#8220;non-United States origin.&#8221; In the period between Mahmoud M. Hegab&#8217;s security clearance investigation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ODNI Reports Number of Security Clearances to Congress</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 12:56:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Henderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On September 20, 2011 the FAS (Federation of American Scientists) Secrecy News blog reported, “The number of persons who held security clearances for access to classified information last year exceeded 4.2 million — far more than previously estimated — according to a new intelligence community report to Congress.” Although this report by the Office of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>OPM Issues New Notices Concerning SF86, Clearance Costs and Reciprocity</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/getting-updating-a-clearance/opm-issues-new-notices-concerning-sf86-clearance-costs-and-reciprocity/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=opm-issues-new-notices-concerning-sf86-clearance-costs-and-reciprocity</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Sep 2011 17:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Henderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has posted 4 new Federal Investigations Notices (FIN) on their website all dated August 29, 2011. FIN 11-04—“Continuous Efforts to Align with Reciprocity Goals and Timeliness Standards.” This FIN fully implements interim adjustments made to National Investigative Standards by a August 2010 joint memorandum issued by OPM and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facility Security Clearance Holds Up Small Business</title>
		<link>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/getting-updating-a-clearance/facility-security-clearance-holds-up-small-business/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=facility-security-clearance-holds-up-small-business</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 17:38:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We spend most of our time here talking about personnel security clearances, but facility security clearances can also pose major problems, especially for small businesses. It&#8217;s the typical chicken before the egg conundrum &#8211; you can&#8217;t do certain &#8220;cleared&#8221; work without a facility security clearance but you can&#8217;t get a facility security clearance without &#8220;cleared&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>20</slash:comments>
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		<title>DSS Deployment of New SF86</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 17:51:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Henderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Defense Security Service (DSS) announced that effective on August 29, 2011 as part of a Joint Personnel Adjudication System (JPAS) release update (version 4.3.0.0), the new 2010 Standard Form 86 (Questionnaire for National Security Positions) will be available for use by federal contractors using JPAS.  A new “Fair Credit Release” form will be required [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>NISPPAC Report Shows Top Secret Clearance Reinvestigation Times Increasing</title>
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		<comments>http://www.clearancejobsblog.com/cleared-news/nisppac-report-shows-top-secret-clearance-reinvestigation-times-increasing/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 18:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Henderson</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On August 3, 2011 the National Industrial Security Program Policy Advisory Committee (NISPPAC) report for March 2011 was posted at their website.  NISPPAC is made up of representatives from Government and industry and meets two to three times a year.  Meetings usually include presentations by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) and the Defense Industrial [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Much Does a Security Clearance Really Cost?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 14:18:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you ask around the common perception seems to be that getting a security clearance costs sponsoring companies or agencies a lot of money &#8211; this is a case of perception not meshing with reality, however. The cost of investigations is published, with the average cost for OPM investigations at $1,230 per investigation. The most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pathological Lying, a Misdemeanor Offense and a Top Secret Clearance</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 17:54:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Federal prosecutors, the district court judge and a number of others are asking how Army Reserve 2nd Lt. Scott Allan Bennett was able to obtain a top-secret clearance and work as a defense contractor, despite a 2008 misdemeanor conviction for lying to government officials, the Tampa Bay Online reports. The story unfolds like something from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ask Your Clearance Questions &#8211; Part 23</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our popular ongoing series allows you to ask your most complex questions regarding security clearances and our regular contributors of present and former clearance investigators and adjudicators will try to answer them. The rules are listed below. Failure to abide by them will mean your question will be deleted. NOTE: Due to the volume of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Investigators Falsified Security Clearance Investigations</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Jun 2011 19:17:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Washington Times is reporting that investigators have falsified hundreds of top secret security clearance investigations, claiming to have conducted research that never took place. Court records showed 170 falsified interviews and more than 1,000 that could not be verified. Individuals quoted in the Washington Times story report that the push to adjudicate clearances as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Calling all security cleared farmers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2011 18:54:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lindy Kyzer</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Atlantic reports (courtesy of Registan blogger Joshua Foust) of a recent job posting for agricultural specialists, security clearance required. It points to the dramatic increase in recent years for the need for individuals in a variety of occupations to hold security clearances &#8211; from executive assistants and janitorial crews working in cleared facilities to, [...]]]></description>
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