From: Howard C. Berkowitz (hcb@gettcomm.com)
Date: Mon May 10 2004 - 21:40:05 GMT-3
At 10:46 PM -0700 5/10/04, Tim Fewkes wrote:
>Tom,
>
>I am hearing more about 'security clearances' these days, probably
>because I've got more friends from the east coast than I used to.
>People who stay on the west coast don't really ever talk about it.
>How does a normal tax-paying American qualify for a security
>clearance, if you haven't served in the armed forces?
As an individual, you can't. Security clearances are only granted
under the sponsorship of an employer with a contract for classified
work, which authorizes a certain number of "billets" for people to
hold clearances. In general, once you have a clearance, it can be
transferred, or reactivated up to two years after it's been active.
It's very much a chicken-and-egg situation in the Washington DC area.
There is extreme demand for people that already hold high-level
security clearances, which can be transferred to the new employer
without waiting many months for a security investigation.
>
>Thomas Larus [tlarus@cox.net] wrote:
>> get a really high-level job based on "CCIE alone." Almost all will also
>> have experience and/or good educational credentials and/or a security
>> clearance, etc.
>
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