[Robbvious]

Hello, I'm new to this board and have been following it for awhile as I'm considering expediting when I retire.
Anyway, I am currently deployed and I'm Unit Security Manager for 2 squadrons. You must have a reason to have a security clearance, such as Military service in a career field that requires a clearance(not all do...), government contracting, etc. In other words, you cannot simply apply for a clearance in anticipation of needing one, you must have a current need for one. After you are granted a clearance it will be for a specific level of classified information, such as Classified, Secret, Top Secret, etc. It will only be for the highest level of classification for which you need access to. Secret and lower clearances are valid for 10 years, TS and above are valid for 7 years. However, regardless of level clearance level required for your current needs, your access to classified information stops when you no longer have a "need to know". In other words, when you leave your current job, your access to classified information is suspended until some other agency applies for re-instatement of your access based on some current need. Your clearance is still valid, but you can't access classified information until you again have a "need to know" and your agency requests re-instates your access. For example, when you leave the military, your access is stopped, but can be restarted at any time an agency you work for requires it.


As greg334 stated the SF86 is the form that you will fill out to apply for a security clearance. To ensure timely investigation, make sure that you fill out the form completely with current verifiable information. If the investigators have to chase down people because you put down "unknown" or provide incomplete info, it will take months to get your application through. As it stands right now, it takes at least 4 months to complete an investigation, but count on it taking much longer.

If you've had a clearance in the past, and are within 10 years of your last investigation, it often only takes the investigators a month or so to complete a credit report, a local agency check, and a federal criminal records check. It's fairly simple to access the Joint Personnel Adjudication System to see if you are within 10 years, but you must have a OPM/DoD security manager with JPAS access to complete it.

Good Luck

[TwoMotherTrkrs]

What is the "local agency check"?

[greg334]

Originally Posted by TwoMotherTrkrs

What is the "local agency check"?

It means that your local law enforcement agency needs to run a local check on you. A lot of information on the Local level and in some cases the state level is not accessible to the feds - databases are not connected believe it or not.

[08CareerOTR]

Chris here, WOW alot of great information I wanta thanks you all..I am now training for a Class C-CDL with Hazmat and plan to work all details out...plus plans to purchase a Ford Cube van with 16ft box and diesel and build my sleeper area myself to cut back on weight...but first trying to join a fleet owner team 1st to learn and get exp...but thank you all......hope to chat with you all more soon here..... God is my pilot.....

[tblount]

Originally Posted by greg334

Here are some links for you;.

Doesn't work.. but it can be found here: Standard Form 86 - Questionnaire for National Security Positions

So.... what is the difference with this security clearance and all the backgroud checks with Homeland Security and FBI and fingerprinting needed to get hazmat endorsemnt?

I thought that the #1 reason the department of Homeland Security was created was so the left hand would know what the right hand was doing. All these background checks are probably checking the same database... much like used card dealers check your credit rating before they will offer you a loan.

The inefficiency of government just baffels me... and I'm not the only one.... in an episode of Boston Legal last year they dealt with this issue when Denny Crain was not allowed to fly because the name Denny Crain was on the no-fly list. This is what Alan Shore had to say:


Some of the new iPods, you can load up to twenty thousand songson them. Streams of videos, pictures, all on a thing this big. He indicates about four inches. The technology in this country is staggering! And yet, the Government can’t get their computers to erase my client from the No-Flylist. Even though they admit he shouldn’t be on it. Instead, anybody named Denny Crane can’t fly. Now! MrWinchell is correct, he doesn’t need me to indict Homeland Security, the 9/11 commission already did that. The American public certainly doesn’t need to hear it from me. No! What Homeland Security could really use from me or others, preferably others, is a little help. Why not get it? I’m sure Tom Ridge is a very nice man, capable too, as is Michael Chertoff. But I can get twenty thousand songs on my iPod! We have geniuses in this country.True pioneers of innovation. Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Steve Ballmer, If we could just round up some of our best Steves. We’ve got kids in garages inventing Google and YouTube. Jets can not only fly by computer, but they can now take off and land on auto pilot. Should we truly be stumped by this No-Fly computer list? How about something so simple as issuing a flyer's license? It could have your picture, fingerprints, you show it, scan the card and your fingers at the gate, if it’s a match you get your aisle seat! This can’t be undoable. Expensive? Maybe. But judging from recent spending patterns we’ve got billions to throw around. Halliburton alone has profited ten billion from the war, maybe we could get them to kick in? Why is it our Government leaders only tap into the private sector for campaign contributions or to pass out contracts to cronies? Bill Gates is out there! Paul Allen! Has anybody called them? I bet Mark Cuban would personally fund the computer upgrades if you gave him free publicity. Is it really against national policy to think outside the box? This isn’t about beating up on Homeland Security. Everybody knows they’re trying, I’m sure they’re good people, but they simply cannot dispatch a representative to this courtroom to say the problem isn’t fixable, while thousands of Americans are being denied due process. It so easily has to be fixable. And in the meantime my client sits here today, a law-abiding man, grounded

[dabluzman1]

We filled out our DOD form the first week we joined FedEx CC. It took about 14 weeks to get our interim clearance and another 8 weeks until full clearance.

[greg334]

The links work, they are PDF files and may take a while to load.