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Security Clearance Process

  DSS Updates the FCL Request Process The Defense Security Service (DSS) has finished updates to the Facility Clearance (FCL) process in efforts to improve accountability and make it more efficient. The updates include a “FCL Roadmap” and an accompanying FCL Orientation Handbook that provide detailed explanations of the process

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Obtaining Security Clearance

I was researching some of the lesser known facts about security clearances and background investigations and ran across a very informative and interesting article posted on WiseGeek.com that described what a Yankee White security clearance is and what the requirements are to get one. In a nutshell, in order to

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

Our popular series of Q&A regarding security clearances continues in this thread. Before you ask your question, please navigate to view threads one through three…
Security Clearance Jobs

We are now half way into the Base Realignment and Closure rulings of 2005. Slated to be complete in 2011, thousands of jobs and a…
Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

A February 15, 2008 reported on the "progress" being made to reduce security clearance processing time. The article contained a link to the February 2008…