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Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

We get clearance-related questions in almost all threads on this site, so we thought we’d occasionally create a separate Q&A thread. Here, you can ask questions about clearance investigations, how to get a clearance, reinvestigations, adjudications, or any topic you are looking for an answer to.

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Career Advice

A new article take a deeper approach to the question of which type of employer is better. Is it better to be a Federal employee or a Federal contractor? While the article goes into details about specific government agencies, salaries for contractors, pay scales, and other detailed topics, it seems

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Career Advice

Defense giant Raytheon is holding a security clearance job fair in the metro DC area on Wednesday, July 18th. The event is from 3:00pm EST to 7:00pm EST at the Hyatt Regency at 1800 President Street in Reston, VA. Open jobs include: Systems and Software Engineering Software Development (Java, J2EE)

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Security Clearance Jobs

Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent. It is the agency’s first effort since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks to curb what critics have decried as the growing privatization of U.S. intelligence work, a circumstance that has sharply boosted some

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