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Career Advice

For security-clearance holders, flat is the new up, when it comes to salaries and earnings. The good news is trends may grow more optimistic going forward. A Washington Post article discussed recent trends in security clearance compensation and the possible reasons for the decline.  When it comes to surveying salary,

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Background InvestigationsCybersecurity

In a follow up to a previous article highlighting how Chinese hackers attack U.S. networks, another story has hit the news headlines describing how former background investigation contractor USIS failed to detect a security breach by Chinese hackers who penetrated USIS information system firewalls for several months. The hackers gained

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Past Security Clearance Posts

Career Advice

Defense giant Raytheon is holding a security clearance job fair in the metro DC area on Wednesday, July 18th. The event is from 3:00pm EST…
Security Clearance Jobs

Acting under pressure from Congress, the CIA has decided to trim its contractor staffing by 10 percent. It is the agency's first effort since the…
Obtaining Security Clearance

We've had a lot of threads here where people have briefly discussed how they obtained their clearance. Let's make it official.. Tell us: When you…