Interim Clearance for summer internships

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Jake305

Interim Clearance for summer internships

Post by Jake305 »

What security clearance did y'all receive for your summer internships. Did your SF grant you say a secret clearance and you held onto it until graduation or where you granted an interim clearance for each summer?

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Re: Interim Clearance for summer internships

Post by JDetwiler »

It's just an interim until they finish their investigation and grant you the clearance for whatever you were put in for. You retain the clearance for as long as you're still with the government, basically. If you already hold the clearance when you leave to go back to school, they might swear you out as an NDA bookkeeping thing to say "you're not allowed to see any more classified material until you come back."

Additionally, if you ever do leave the government and have a clearance terminated on good terms, it's easier to get one again should you ever need to.
I'm a Phase 2 recipient, B.S. in Computer Science, B.S. in Math from Virginia Tech Dec. 2019. I've been with SMART since Spring 2017; Dahlgren is my SF.

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