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

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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

Last week during the Telework Exchange Town Hall Meeting, OPM Director John Berry credited the approx. 5,000 investigators who worked from home in reducing the average time needed for a security clearance investigation from a year in ’01 to 37 days. The Department of Defense (DoD) had the greatest number