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Background Investigations

Late last Fall the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) implemented the first 2 tiers of the new 5-tier background investigation process that was approved through collaboration between OPM and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Although OPM did not send out an official notice to the field

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Career AdviceCybersecuritySecurity Clearance Jobs

It is no wonder that cyber-related jobs are among the fastest growing careers fields in this day and age. Technology drives everything we do and in order to gain the advantage over competitors and potential enemies we have to be able to not only operate in the cyber-world, but have

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

Ask your questions here regaring security clearances and our regular contributors will try to answer them. Here are the rules: Please do not address a contributor…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

An article in the Washington Business Journal on Friday, April 25, 2008 reported information from a survey of more than 100 government contractors, made by…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

An April 27, 2008 Los Angeles Times article reported on a new study, released in March, by the Pentagon's little-known Defense Personnel Security Research Center,…