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Security Clearance Denial

Security clearance applicants should beware of heeding advice that contradicts answering truthfully and providing full disclosure on the SF-86. Ultimately, it is you who will have to answer the mail when it comes out during the course of the investigation process. A defense contractor found this out the hard way

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Adjudication

As noted in a posting by William Henderson on our main site regarding the recent release of Security Executive Agent Directive (SEAD) 4 – National Security Adjudicative Guidelines, a few changes were made to some of the adjudicative definitions and concerns. Guideline H: Drug Involvement and Substance Misuse has some

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Security Clearance Process

When is a job about more than the job? When you have a security clearance or you’re in the military. Many people have heard the…
Cybersecurity

Like clockwork, it seems every late summer there's a call for more people in government to pay attention to the threat of an Electro-Magnetic Pulse…
Security Clearance Process

It’s a frequent problem particularly in the government-driven Washington, D.C. area – highly skilled cleared personnel left sitting on their hands for months at a…