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IAT, IAM, IASAE and the DCWF Role Codes: Which Category Your Cleared Job Falls Into
The clause that put "IAT Level II" into a generation of cleared job descriptions is dated JAN 2008 and points at DoD 8570.01-M, a manual the Department cancelled on February 15, 2023. It is still printed in the codified DFARS, and since February 1, 2026 contracting officers have … more
Trusted Workforce 2.0 and NBIS: What Replaced the Periodic Reinvestigation
Agencies scheduled 7,716 periodic reinvestigations in the second quarter of fiscal year 2025. In the second quarter of fiscal year 2026 they scheduled 100.The change that ended it for cleared industry was announced on 19 May 2026, when the Defense Counterintelligence and Security… more
Bill Rate vs. Pay Rate: Why Your Recruiter Cannot Go Higher
A price list on GSA Advantage bills a Network Security Engineer at $105.39 an hour and a Senior Network Security Engineer at $132.76. Real awarded prices, contract GS-35F-527AA. Neither is anybody's salary. What separates a published rate from your offer letter is mostly not nego… more
OCI Under FAR 9.5: The Rule That Can Disqualify the Cleared Candidate You Just Offered
Search the full text of FAR subpart 9.5 for the word "hire." It is not there. Neither is "employee," "employ," "hiring," "recruit" nor "staff," anywhere in its roughly 3,000 words, checked against acquisition.gov on July 21, 2026. All nine worked examples describe companies suppl… more
Do Government Contractors Get Paid During a Shutdown?
When Congress ended the 2025 shutdown on November 12, 2025, it did not forget the people who had gone unpaid. Section 116 of Public Law 119-37 made federal employees whole. Section 120 rescinded reduction-in-force notices issued during the lapse and returned those employees to du… more