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Security Clearance Process

On January 6, 2015 Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, introduced a bill, H.R.55 – Rightsizing Activities of Intelligence Non-Governmental Contractors (RAINC) Act of 2015, that would require the U.S. Intelligence Community to reduce the number of top secret clearances granted to contractors. Here is the official summary

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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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Past Security Clearance Posts

Security Clearance Jobs

Although I've lived in the metro DC area for eight years, I haven't ever heard of "The Examiner." A writer by the name of Melanie…
Security Clearance Jobs

National Public Radio covered the defense industry again, this time focusing on the growing reliance of private contractors to fill intelligence roles at the "three…
Obtaining Security Clearance

It has been over a year (since May 2005) that a national news organization has come out to declare the security clearance backlog as a…