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Security clearances as Shakespeare – Is a security clearance by another agency as sweet? Security clearance reciprocity is a question that comes up frequently at ClearanceJobs.com. Many professionals assume that if they have been cleared by one agency, their security clearance will readily transfer to another agency. This isn’t the

A reporter from a national news source has contacted ClearanceJobs asking for investigators’ opinions on what’s wrong with the clearance investigation process and how it can be improved. You can of course give background information and not be named. After talking with the reporter for an hour, I’m confident he

ClearanceJobs founder and managing director Evan Lesser was recently interviewed by Federal Times about security clearance processing and progress. While dramatic improvements in processing times have been made in recent years and the security clearance program has been taken off the Government Accountability Office hot seat, there’s still a lot

The General Accountability Office (GAO) recently released a report on the cost of “Background Investigations” (GAO-12-197) conducted by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM).  The first sentence of the report declared: OPM’s reported costs to conduct background investigations increased by almost 79 percent, from about $602 million in fiscal year