Obtaining Security Clearance
Getting, obtaining, updating a new security clearance or going through the Periodic Reinvestigation process
A Review of Executive Order 13467
On 30 June 2008 President Bush issued Executive Order 13467 (Reforming Processes Related to Suitability for Government Employment, Fitness for Contractor Employees, and Eligibility for Access to Classified National Security Information). Some may view E.O. 13467 as just another well-intentioned but mundane bureaucratic pronouncement that enables but fails to command
Ask Your Clearance Questions – Part 11
Our popular ongoing series allows you to ask your most complex questions regaring security clearances and our regular contributors of present and former clearance investigators and adjudicators will try to answer them. Here are the rules: Please do not address a contributor by name to ensure anyone who has knowledge might answer.
Ask Your Clearance Questions – Part 10
Unique on the web! Our ongoing series allows you to ask your most complex questions regaring security clearances and our regular contributors will try to answer them. Here are the rules: Please do not address a contributor by name to ensure anyone who has knowledge might answer. Do not include your own
OMB Boasts Clearance Processing Progress
In the May 26th edition of Washington Technology magazine, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) boasts that the average time to process a security clearance has dropped by 46%, from 250 days in 2005 to 136 days in 2008. You believe it? Questions: Is this for federal employees, contractors,