Background Investigations

On 1 October 2008 the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) issued Intelligence Community Directive (ICD) Number 704, Personnel Security Standards And Procedures Governing Eligibility For Access To Sensitive Compartmented Information And Other Controlled Access Program Information. ICD 704 rescinds DCID 6/4. The most important change pertains to non-US citizen immediate

OPM recently announced (FIN 08-04) the prices of their investigative products for Fiscal Year 2009. The costs of the most common investigations increased between 4.5% and 6.1%. It appears that OPM has managed to improve their turnaround time during the past fiscal year without a significant price increase. The government

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 and adjudicators will try to answer them. The rules are listed below. Failure to abide by them will mean your question will be deleted. Note: All questions

On 23 August 2008 the Washington Post carried an AP story about the Defense Intelligence Agency’s (DIA) intention to use contractors to conduct polygraph examinations for security clearances. “An unclassified DIA document describing the new effort says the contractor hired to perform the exams will conduct a minimum of 4,550