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Security Clearance Process

The Defense Security Service’s Personnel Security Management and Oversight-Industry (PSMO-I) is responsible for processing contractor security clearances for industry and overseeing continuous evaluation and insider threat programs on behalf of Department of Defense (DoD) and 32 other Federal agencies who participate in the National Industrial Security Program (NISP). In their

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Obtaining Security Clearance

What is the difference between having a security clearance versus being found eligible for a security clearance? This question has confounded many applicants after they have endured the long and arduous national security background investigation process and were told it was favorably adjudicated. Many who thought they were cleared found

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Security Clearance Jobs

You asked, we listened...Introducing the Security Clearance Jobs Forum. Questions about the security clearance process? Vents about working in the security clearance industry? You now…
Security Clearance Process

The long-awaited government report on the security clearance process has been released, and it offers a glimpse into the security clearance reforms we can expect to…
Security Clearance Jobs

As public opinion sways, so does the security clearance process. At least that's the argument a contributor at ClearanceJobs.com made recently. He unpacked several of…