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Background Investigations

Once all of the investigative requirements for your background investigation have been completed it is sent to the DOD Central Adjudication Facility (CAF), if you work for a DOD component, or to the federal agency’s CAF that requested your investigation. For DOD personnel and contractors your case is assigned to

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Security Clearance Process

On January 6, 2015 Representative Sheila Jackson Lee, a Democrat from Texas, introduced a bill, H.R.55 – Rightsizing Activities of Intelligence Non-Governmental Contractors (RAINC) Act of 2015, that would require the U.S. Intelligence Community to reduce the number of top secret clearances granted to contractors. Here is the official summary

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Security Clearance Jobs

A January 27, 2008 WashingtonPost.com article reported, “Global markets may be writhing and the U.S. economy teetering at the brink of recession, but for many…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

A January 14, 2008 article in the Ashbury Park Press quoted Rep. Frank J. Pallone Jr. (D-NJ) saying that the plan does not "pass the…
Background Investigations

Some major defense contractors feel that no significant improvement has been made this year in security clearance processing times. "Despite the expected need next year…