>concerned. The conferring of a "Secret" clearance is a very >jealously-guarded govt. prerogative. Often a clearance from one branch of >the govt will not be accepted by another branch of the same govt. I was telling him offline that having a prior clearance will usually extend the process. I had a guy I worked with, a MSEE, who had a (TS+compartmental+cryto) clearance in Korea when he was in charge of communications at one of our bases. When he got a civilian job, it took over a year for them to clear him to a Secret _because_ of his prior stuff. Whoda thunk!?! Andy -- http://www.piclist.com hint: To leave the PICList mailto:piclist-unsubscribe-request@mitvma.mit.edu