[rescue] Sr. Irix Job w/DOE clearance

[William G. Gruesbeck Jr.]

According to the DoD defenselink.mil knowledge base, if you need to have a
security clearance, the hiring Agency of the contractor (DoD DOE DOJ etc.)
must be informed by the company and the hiring Agency performs the
background check, credit history, etc. The length of persistence of the
clearance depends on the clearance level, ie Top Secret, Top Secret
Compartmentalized, Top Secret Compartmentalized Need To Know, etc. The
average length I believe is one year from end of employment. If you switch
jobs you don't have to "move" your clearance, it follows you then expires,
but the new company's security officer takes care of any paperwork needed.
You are cleared for that knowledge, not the company per se. There are all
kinds of levels and classes of security clearances. I live next to Wright
Patterson Air Force Base and both of my parents run research labs on Area B.
I also work part time for the same company as my mother and the owner is
also the security officer.  If you want the actual policy documents, forms,
and brochures go to www.dss.mil (Defense Security Service) and click on the
Security Library Link.
All security background checks should go through the DSS.

Bill Gruesbeck Jr.


----Original Message-----
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com>
To: rescue at sunhelp.org <rescue at sunhelp.org>
Date: Saturday, October 12, 2002 1:03 AM
Subject: Re: [rescue] Sr. Irix Job w/DOE clearance


>On Friday, October 11, 2002, at 11:51 PM, Chris Hedemark wrote:
>> I am looking for a job, but I have no clearance with the gummint.
>>
>> Just how does one go about getting clearance if they don't already
>> work for the gummint?  It would expand my job opportunities in the
>> area a bit if I had clearance going into the process.
>
>   Be advised that this is very old information...I last held a security
>clearance something like twelve years ago, and it was through
>DoD/DISCO, not DoE.
>
>   You go to work for an organization without a clearance.  They apply
>for a clearance for you.  When you get that clearance, and subsequently
>leave that organization, your clearance persists for six months, then
>expires.  I don't know if there's anything involved in "moving" your
>clearance to a new company or agency, as I've never had to do that.
>
>   Things may be a bit different now...9/11, no more cold war with the
>Soviet Union, etc.
>
>        -Dave
>
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