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Oh dang. I estimated tens of thousands. I was off by an order of magnitude and I was the one trying to defend this contract to HackerNews. Lol. Yeah, DISA is freaking huge. We're doing some work for them right now and the scope is massive.

Speaking of which... if any of you have a Secret clearance and want a job... :)

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Out of curiosity, if you have a Secret clearance and it expires after 10 years where does that place you on the scale from never having a clearance 0 to having an active clearance 10.

Your Secret clearance now expires sometimes within a matter of months of being off a contract or out of a job that requires it. OPM is cleaning up the clearances, and revoking millions of them. I've had employees go from active TS to "eligible" status (which mean no clearance) in a matter of a few weeks after their contract ended. That whole "10 year active period" is not true, at least anymore, unless you are in a position that requires the clearance for that whole period of time.

You're considered lucky to retain a clearance more than a month out of the service now, too. OPM is taking a tough stance on unused clearances and it has negatively impacted the job market for recently separated Veterans because the contracts that come out all require a pre-cleared workforce, which is a rapidly diminishing pool of people to pull from given that clearances are now being revoked as soon as someone gets out of the service or leaves their last position.

I don't recall what the actual text says, but when I became a security manager we were always told it was 10/5 years eligible.

But I've never even attempted to get a job that required a clearance after my ETS...

But I think the question being asked is not what you answered. I think he's wondering if his clearance eligibility expired last year, where does he stand in line for getting a job that requires a clearance?

Yeah, and having already had a clearance in the past definitely helps speed up the process to "reactivate" it. The big bummer for companies like mine is that our contract says that we have to have employees with an active clearance. So to activate the clearance, we have to hire them, keep them on overhead for several months and they can't start working until their clearance is approved.

It's a painful $20-$40k hit to the budget. :/

Do you not have a Prime? They should be supporting these kind of issues with supplement contract workers.

Being eligible for a clearance is binary on the current investigation.

Holding an active clearance is dependent on being read in, which is dependent on being eligible and having a need to know.

Also, having an expired investigation is synonymous with having no investigation. If you miss the window to re-investigate you start from 0.

Interesting, thanks for the update.

I always figured that for Secret level, at least, it seemed like a not-too-detailed investigation. No interviews, anyways.

frankydp is likely referring to the DISA Enterprise Email (DEE) service. It's, in my opinion, DISA's largest and most mature "cloud" service. And it serves all of DoD.

http://www.disa.mil/enterprise-services/applications/dod-ent...

I have a Secret and am mid job-hunt. Working anywhere warm? :V Clearence has been verified as active as-of last month? I suppose they are keeping it due to my IRR status

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