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JPAS

Joint Personnel Adjudication System
Background Investigations

In her 17 September 2008 written remarks to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Intelligence Community Management, Kathy Dillaman, Associate Director Federal Investigative Services Division (FISD), Office of Personnel Management (OPM), provided the following data on investigative elapse times: Closed during: All Initial Clearances Top Secret Initial Secret/Confidential Total

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Background InvestigationsObtaining Security ClearanceSecurity Clearance Jobs

OPM recently announced (FIN 08-04) the prices of their investigative products for Fiscal Year 2009. The costs of the most common investigations increased between 4.5% and 6.1%. It appears that OPM has managed to improve their turnaround time during the past fiscal year without a significant price increase. The government

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Background InvestigationsObtaining Security Clearance

Our popular ongoing series allows you to ask your most complex questions regaring security clearances and our regular contributors of present and former clearance investigators and adjudicators will try to answer them. The rules are listed below. Failure to abide by them will mean your question will be deleted. Note: All questions

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