For clearance holders, having unexplained wealth is a security concern. If you’ve recently come into a tidy sum through inheritance, casino winnings, or even the lottery, here’s how to protect your clearance and your cash.

Significant other? Cohabitant? Buddy? Strictly professional? These situations can get complicated, so perhaps the best way of assessing any living situation is to approach it with this question in mind: What is the government’s motivation for inquiring?

The lesson here for applicants attempting to obtain an interim security clearance is simply this: don’t underestimate the value of the comments sections on the SF-86 form as a place to mitigate potential concerns.

As it turns out, being sloppy isn’t just an annoying quirk – it can cost you your cleared career.

Security clearance holders are required to immediately self-report an arrest or criminal charges. In many cases, self-reporting can head off clearance revocation at the pass – but not always.

Serving as a government contractor can sometimes be stressful. To relieve that stress, some turn to massage, and that is where things get, well…touchy.

Las Vegas has earned its reputation as a carefree ‘playground’ for those wishing to let loose. But its implied anarchy is overblown – and security clearance holders can forget about partaking in it anyway.

As it turns out, the same cutting-edge technologies so exciting to consumers are also of considerable interest to the feds. The internet, cell phones, and global positioning systems were all government-funded projects before they exploded into the mainstream.

History demonstrates that all good things eventually come to an end. Strength of the U.S. economy notwithstanding, a financial crisis at some point is inevitable, and security clearance holders should be prepared.

The two most common examples are misunderstanding the nature of court-mandated first-time DUI offender classes, and failing to accurately report on their SF-86 form the correct offense for which they were arrested.