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An interim clearance may be denied (although the final clearance may still be granted) for having a large amount of debt, [41] having a foreign spouse, for having admitted to seeing a doctor for a mental health condition, or for having admitted to other items of security concern (such as a criminal record or a history of drug use.). When ...
Security clearances can be issued by many United States of America government agencies, including the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of State (DOS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), the Department of Energy (DoE), the Department of Justice (DoJ), the National Security Agency (NSA), and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).
The Office of Personnel Management data breach was a 2015 data breach targeting Standard Form 86 (SF-86) U.S. government security clearance records retained by the United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM).
A United States security clearance is an official determination that an individual may access information classified by the United States Government. Security clearances are hierarchical; each level grants the holder access to information in that level and the levels below it.
AR 380-5, Department of the Army Information Security Program, 29 September 2000; AR 380-67, Personnel Security Program, 9 September 1988; AR 380-381, Special Access Programs (SAPs) and Sensitive Activities, 21 April 2004; Authorized Classification and Control Markings Register Version 1.2, 12 May 2008
A Single Scope Background Investigation (SSBI), now called a Tier 5 (T5) [1] investigation, is a type of United States security clearance investigation. [2] It involves investigators or agents interviewing past employers, coworkers and other individuals associated with the subject of the SSBI.
In 1946, U.S. Army Counter Intelligence Corps Major William L. Uanna, in his capacity as the first Chief of the Central Personnel Clearance Office at the newly formed Atomic Energy Commission, named and established the criteria for the Q Clearance. [5] The security clearance process at the DOE is adjudicated by the DOE Office of Hearings and ...
The SF 86. Standard Form 86 (SF 86) is a U.S. government questionnaire that individuals complete in order for the government to collect information for "conducting background investigations, reinvestigations, and continuous evaluations of persons under consideration for, or retention of, national security positions."