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Security Clearance Process

The DoD Consolidated Adjudication Facility (CAF) unveiled a brand new website in May that is surprisingly forthcoming in providing information about adjudications, appeals, security clearance announcements/news, and even DoD CAF job openings. This is quite a refreshing change to what in the past has always seemed to be a shadow

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Background Investigations

An article in the Washington Post this weekend argues that despite a background investigation overhaul at the Office of Personnel Management that resulted in the barring of background investigation contractor USIS and was to lead to changes in security clearance processing, the pressures remain much the same for the investigators

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

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…
Security Clearance Process

A February 18, 2009 article at BusinessWire reported that ATS Corporation (ATSC) was awarded a new $6 million contract with the Defense Security Service (DSS)…
Background InvestigationsCareer AdviceObtaining Security Clearance

This is the second of a two-part article on the relevance and effect of criminal conduct on security clearances. Part 1 covered the Relevance of…