In category: career
Clearance Revoked – Can You Still Get Hired? The Uncleared Career Restart
One sentence in a regulation not substantively amended since 1994 sets the clock. An applicant "finally denied or revoked by the DOHA is barred from reapplication for 1 year from the date of the initial unfavorable clearance decision." That is item 37 of Appendix A to 32 CFR part… more
DOHA Hearings: What Happens When You Appeal a Clearance Denial to a Judge
On 9 May 2025 the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency issued a Statement of Reasons to a software engineer at a defense contractor. She answered, requested a hearing, testified over Microsoft Teams, and was denied on 30 January 2026: 266 days, 43 of them a shutdown fu… more
Security Clearance Denial Rates: How Often Applicants Are Actually Denied, by Guideline
The Defense Department's adjudication facility published a denial figure, and almost nobody quotes it. In fiscal 2021 the DCSA DoD Consolidated Adjudications Facility closed 836,461 cases and recorded 1,810 as "Denied Revoked": denials and revocations pooled, against a workload m… more
Failing a Polygraph and Keeping Your Job: What Actually Happens Next
In fiscal year 2002, Department of Defense examiners ran 8,512 counterintelligence-scope screening polygraphs. Of those, 267 produced a significant response, volunteered substantive information, or both. When DoD wrote the report, none of the 267 had been denied access or had acc… 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