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Cybersecurity

Unless you have been hiding under a rock in the caves of Afghanistan over the past two years, you may have heard of the Federal Government’s push to lock down and secure access to IT systems and applications. The impetus behind this was a mandate from the Office of Management and Budget

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Security Clearance Jobs

Located directly in the middle of most of the agencies that make up the Intelligence Community, ODNI Director James Clapper opened the new state of the art campus named Intelligence Agency Campus-Bethesda (ICC-B) that will house up to 3,000 employees who had been previously moved to Ft. Belvoir in 2011. According

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Obtaining Security Clearance

Score one for the bureaucracy: Mule drivers at an eastern Pennsylvania historical park need the same federal security clearance as port workers. The Homeland Security…
Background Investigations

A press release from USIS indicates their investigators will soon use smartphones to help them perform a variety of functions to complete their casework when…
Background Investigations

A March 11, 2009 article in the Federal Times revisited The Joint Security and Suitability Reform Team's aims, including creating an automated end-to-end clearance process…