In category: Recruiting
How to Verify a Candidate’s Security Clearance Before You Make the Offer
One sentence in a Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency policy answers what your hiring team keeps asking. Appendix B, item 9 of the DISS Account Management Policy, version 2.0: "Industry companies are authorized to verify prospective employees' eligibility for access t… more
DCSA Processing Times: What to Tell a Hiring Manager Waiting on a Start Date
The Security, Suitability, and Credentialing Performance Accountability Council put the government-wide end-to-end time for a Secret clearance at 104 days in its FY2026 Q1 progress report. Three months later its FY2026 Q2 report and the matching legacy-metrics supplement print 92… more
Hiring Cleared Talent Away From Another Contractor: The Rules of Crossover Recruiting
In FY2026 the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency bills a non-DoD agency $5,890 for the Tier 5 investigation behind a Top Secret clearance and $455 for a Tier 3. Not your invoice: under the National Industrial Security Program the government customer pays. It is the u… more
When Continuous Vetting Flags Your Cleared Employee: The Employer’s Obligation and the Backfill
One sentence starts the clock when DCSA notifies you. The contractor "will immediately deny access to classified information to any employee when notified of a denial, revocation, or suspension of eligibility regardless of the contractor employee's location," per 32 CFR 117.10(a)… more
Contract Recompete: How to Retain the Incumbent Cleared Workforce You Just Inherited
Key takeaways FAR 52.222-17 and Subpart 22.12 have read [Reserved] since 5 June 2020. The 2021 revival never reached the FAR, but the order urged agencies to insert the clause anyway. Read your own solicitation. What survived is a pay floor, not a hiring duty, and it stops at n… more