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Background Investigations

A background investigator calls you or shows up at your door and says they want to ask you some questions about someone you know. How do you know they are legit? The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Federal Investigations Service (FIS) provides oversight for the federal and contract investigators who

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Security Clearance Denial

Last July I wrote about what the top issues were that resulted in security clearances denials by the Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) Board which review industrial security clearance cases. Here are the final numbers on the 884 cases that were heard this year broken down by the

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Career AdviceSecurity Clearance Jobs

Three new reports from ClearanceJobs.com detail the best cities for defense jobs in three areas: The Southwest, the West Coast, and the East Coast. Not…
Obtaining Security Clearance

In this smart article from a retired Air Force major general, he discusses in pretty basic terms where we should automate the security clearance process.…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

We get clearance-related questions in almost all threads on this site, so we thought we'd occasionally create a separate Q&A thread. Here, you can ask…