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The creation of a new branch of the military, the Space Force, has created new contract opportunities for commercial aerospace space companies to provide the Department of Defense (DoD) with critical technologies and support to help counter the continued counterintelligence threat from countries like China and Russia. Many of these companies

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Background Investigations

In accordance with Security Executive Agency Directive (SEAD) 3 all security clearance holders are required to report suspicious contact with foreign nationals, especially if they are associated with a foreign government. In a recent Department of Justice (DOJ) case an Air Force civilian employee, Xiaoming Zhang, was convicted of providing false

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Adjudication

The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s Vetting Risk Operations Center (VROC) reported as of June 2019  they have enrolled around 1,347,000 security clearance holders into their Continuous Evaluation…
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Most states have laws where if you feel threatened - and are in fear of injury or death - you may use deadly force to…
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When reading through case summaries and Report of Investigations (ROI), I always look for what a security clearance applicant’s motivation was for committing a crime,…