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From: snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Stephen Northcutt)
Newsgroups: sci.military
Subject: Re: Security clearance querey
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Date: 19 Jan 91 03:48:55 GMT
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From: snorthc@relay.nswc.navy.mil (Stephen Northcutt)
|> 
|> 	I am looking for information on government security clearances.
|> 	Basically what organizations issue them for the government and
|> 	how one is obtained.

Different organizations.  One size does not fit all.

|> 	Our company is now selling system to the government, and I can
|> 	foresee a need that a clearance will be needed to work with some
|> 	of the agencies in the near future.

Try to work around this if you can, clearances are expensive.  Perhaps
you can work with simulated data, be escorted etc.

|> 
|> 	While I am at it.. what are the different levels and what is required
|> 	to obtain a clearance at each level?

At a simple level: confidential, secret, top secret.  There are also
subgroups.  I think that a confidential or secret clearance can be issued
fairly easily, a computer check as it were.  After that the level of effort
and the costs go up.  The security people at the gov't orgs you need to
work with with be able to help you when the time is right.  A couple of
suggestions:
Start now to locate all the places you have ever lived or worked.
Be prepared to explain any dead time between jobs.
Fill out the forms as neatly and accurately as possible.  Tell
the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth.


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