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Grumblings from the field about DOD agencies denying contractors access to facilities and/or classified information because their investigations are out of scope has elicited a response from the Director for Defense Intelligence. This issue was addressed in a December 7, 2016 memorandum issued by the Office of the Undersecretary of

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Adjudication

The adjudicative criteria for review of background investigations conducted for the issuance of the Dod Common Access Card (CAC) is governed by DoD Instruction 5200.46 published in September 2014. A little known fact, at least up to now, was that the Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA), the same

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Obtaining Security Clearance

If you're like me, you can find the security clearance process a little, shall we say, obtuse. (Case in point, I worked at the Pentagon…
Background Investigations

The Department of Defense (DoD) released information on February 25, 2011 about improvements made to the personnel security clearance process.  Over the past four years,…
Background InvestigationsCybersecurity

On December 30, 2010 the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) released a report on their yearlong study of police cybervetting policy, “Developing a…