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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

Security Clearance Jobs

We are now half way into the Base Realignment and Closure rulings of 2005. Slated to be complete in 2011, thousands of jobs and a…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

A February 15, 2008 reported on the "progress" being made to reduce security clearance processing time. The article contained a link to the February 2008…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

Our popular series of Q&A regarding security clearances continues in this thread. Before you ask your question, please navigate to view threads one through three…