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Career AdviceSecurity Clearance Jobs

When we think of the agencies that make up the U.S. Intelligence Community (IC) the first ones that come to mind are the CIA, NSA, NRO, and five DOD components, right? There are sixteen agencies that officially make up the IC and in addition to the previously mentioned they are:

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Cybersecurity

When we think of NASA the first thing that comes to mind is astronauts, rockets, and space. National security certainly is not in the forefront when we think of landing on the moon. However, declassified documents from various intelligence and DoD agencies are quite interesting and show that NASA has

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

In the May 26th edition of Washington Technology magazine, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) boasts that the average time to process a security…
Career AdviceSecurity Clearance Process

By popular demand, a place to ask questions on defense careers. All topics are open, including: career advice, salaries, best places to work, company research,…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

Ask your questions here regaring security clearances and our regular contributors will try to answer them. Here are the rules: Please do not address a contributor…