Security Clearance news

Clean Up Your Online Profile Before Applying for a Clearance
It is highly recommended for security clearance applicants and current clearance holders to review their online digital footprint. This ensures anything they may have posted when they were young and foolish, under the influence of alcohol or drugs, or engaged in an unhealthy relationship that ended poorly with revenge photos

Weapons Cache and Experimental Marijuana Grow-House Found in Clearance Applicant’s Home
This particular Defense Office of Hearing and Appeals (DOHA) case was certainly an interesting read just because of the audacity of the applicant in thinking he could keep a security clearance in the first place. The Department of Defense initially granted him eligibility in 2018. In May 2021 he completed
Until you start on a job, there is no clearance. That is “usually” how it works if it’s your initial.
PIV/CAC is your access card/identification cards. Usually it’s a pretty speedy process, but can depend on your security office sending up the forms in a timely matter.
Got it. I appreciate the insight. Thanks!
Of course! Good luck and best wishes!