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If so, you will require a security clearance. ... The Standard Form (SF) 86, Questionnaire for National Security Positions, is the form that is used by military personnel, government contractors, and government employees to apply for a Security Clearance (CONFIDENTIAL, SECRET, TOP SECRET).

There are four main types of security clearances for national security positions. These are confidential, secret, top secret and sensitive compartmented information. This type of security clearance provides access to information that may cause damage to national security if disclosed without authorization.

Level-2 security clearances are given to security and research personnel that require direct access to information regarding anomalous objects and entities in containment. Most research staff, field agents, and containment specialists hold a Level 2 security clearance.

A top secret clearance can draw as much as 12.8 percent more compensation. Translated into cybersecurity, this means an average salary of more than $102,000, according to ClearanceJobs.com.

Top Secret is a more stringent clearance. A Top Secret, or "TS", clearance, is often given as the result of a Single Scope Background Investigation, or SSBI. Top Secret clearances, in general, afford one access to data that affects national security, counterterrorism/counterintelligence, or other highly sensitive data.

A Tier 4 investigation is a high-risk public trust and a Tier 5 investigation is a Top Secret Security Clearance. Tier 4 uses an SF-85P form. Tier 5 uses an SF-86 form.

eQIP is the electronic version of the Standard Forms 85, 85P and 86 (SF 85/86). ... Anyone who requires a government security clearance, suitability for employment determination, or Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12) credentialing, must complete and submit an eQIP through their employing activity.

e-QIP allows the user to electronically enter, update and transmit their personal investigative data over a secure internet connection to a requesting agency.

To check the status of your e-QIP application, please check with the office that initiated you into the system. If the agency has submitted an investigation request on you, you can check the status of your case by calling 724-794-5612, extension 7000.

The processing for a public trust security clearance can take as little as six weeks or as long as six months.

In order to obtain a security clearance, you must first obtain a job that requires one. Your employer either the federal government or a government contractor will walk you through the process of obtaining a clearance, after they've decided they want you for the job. Step one find a job.

In general, expect a CONFIDENTIAL or SECRET clearance to take between 1 and 3 months. A TOP SECRET will probably take between 4 and 8 months. However, some individuals have been waiting for the results of their TOP SECRET investigation for more than one year.

You may be denied security clearance for any number of reasons, including drug involvement, financial debt or affluence (being overly acquisitive), gambling addiction, undue foreign influence, reckless sexual behavior, technology misuse, or other behavior the government deems as a risk to national security.

A security clearance is a determination by the United States Government that a person or company is eligible for access to classified information.

A Public Trust Security Clearance refers to a status granted to individuals which allows them to gain access to classified information such as state secrets and military classified data. ... In the U.S. there are three levels of public trust security clearances which are high, moderate and low.