US Entities that may require clearance

1. Air Force
2. Army
3. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
4. Coast Guard
5. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
6. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
7. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)
8. Department of Energy (DoE)
9. Department of State (DoS)
10. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
11. Marine Corps
12. Navy
13. National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)
14. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO)
15. National Security Agency (NSA)
16. ODNI/IC CIO/Information Management Group (IMG) (ODNI is the office of the
Director of National Intelligence and IC is Intelligence Community)
17. Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (OUSDI)
18. Department of the Treasury

SOME (not all) Variations in Top Secret Clearance

Get the full list from the CAPCO register and manual:
https://www.dni.gov/files/documents/FOIA/Public_CAPCO_Register%20and%20Manual%20v5.1.pdf

TS (Top Secret only, not including SCI)

 TS / SBI
 TS / SSBI
 TS / CISP
 TS / ISSA
 TS / SAP (Special Access Program)
 TS / CISP
 TS / ISSA
 TS / Crypto
 TS / Crypto / Poly (or Polygraph)

SCI (Sensitive Compartmentalized Information) is in addition to Top Secret and denotes information
divided into control systems, compartments and sub-compartments. SC Information may only be stored
and used in a Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF). The control systems are: SI (Special
Intelligence), Stellarwind (STLW) for the NSA, Endseal (EL) for the Navy, Talent Keyhole (TK)
(includes IMINT MASINT and MASINT), HUMINT (HCS), KLONDIKE (KDK) and RESERVE
(RSV). The compartments are: Very Restricted Knowledge (VRK) and GAMMA (G). GAMMA (SI-G)
may be identified with subcompartments labeled with four alphanumeric characters as in SI-G-XXXX.
All SCI assumes there’s already TS so basically any SCI is also TS thus TS/SCI.
  TS / SCI
 TS / SCI / B
 TS / SCI / TK
 TS / SCI / TK / G
 TS / SCI / TK / G / HCS
 TS / SCI / TK / HCS
 TS / SCI / TK / CI Poly
 TS / SCI / TK / Lifestyle Poly
 TS / SCI / G
 TS / SCI / HCS-P
 TS / SCI / SBI
 TS / SCI / HSC
 TS / SCI / SI
 TS / SCI / SI / TK
 TS / SCI / SI / TK / B
 TS / SCI / SI / TK / B / +
 TS / SCI / SI / TK / HCS
 TS / SCI / SI / TK / HCS / I / P
 TS / SCI / SIOP
 TS / SCI / SSBI (Single Scope)
 TS / SCI / SI / TK
 TS / SCI / CI Poly (OR "CI polygraph“)
 TS / SCI / SSBI / CI Poly
 TS / SCI / Full Scope / Lifestyle
 TS / SCI / SI / TK / G / B / HCS
 TS / SCI / TK / HCS
 TS / SCI / TK / B / HCS / CI – Poly
 TS / SCI / Lifestyle Poly
 TS / SCI / Full Scope / Lifestyle

Magic Search String for “Cleared Candidates”

There’s many different ways to do this but here’s an example that includes the most common:

"security clearance" OR COMSEC OR declassified OR unclassified OR FOUO OR FISA OR RSEN OR

IMCON OR PROPIN OR OR RELIDO OR NOFORN OR ORCON OR ANACI OR NACLC OR FISA
OR SSBI OR SBPR OR ISSA OR SIDA OR Polygraph OR "Counterintelligence Scope" OR "Full
Scope" OR FSP OR "Lifestyle Poly" OR DISA OR "DOD Secret“ OR "restricted secret" OR "secret
restricted" OR "Public Trust" OR “Special Access" OR "Secured Identification" OR “Security
Identification" OR TK OR "talent keyhole" OR HCS-P OR "Yankee Fire" OR "Yankee White" OR
“Yankee Blue" OR "top secret" OR SCI OR "CI Poly" OR "CI Polygraph" OR "Interim Secret" OR
"DOE Q" OR "DOE L" OR "Inactive Clearance" OR "in adjudication"

Military Branch Keywords

 “Retired Military”
 USMC OR United States Marine Corps
  USAF OR United States Air Force
 USCG OR United States Coast Guard
 United States Army OR US Army OR USArmy
 USNG OR United States National Guard
 USN OR United States Navy
 (Army OR NAVY OR Marines OR “National Guard” OR “Coast Guard” OR “Air Force”)

Examples of Occupational Codes

Go here to translate skills <> military codes: https://www.onetonline.org/crosswalk/

 Military AND (DD214 OR “DD Form 214” OR DD-214) (military discharge form for end of
service)
 (Army OR MOS) AND (11B OR 11C OR 11Z OR 11L OR 79R OR 79T OR 71L OR DD214)
 (Marines OR MOC) AND (4801 OR 4802 OR 4803 OR 4804 OR 4810 OR 8411 OR 8412)
 (Navy OR NEC) AND (001627 OR 001632 OR 14 OR 2187 OR 9586 OR 003766 OR 2186 OR
9587)
 (Airforce OR AFSC) AND (83R0M OR 83R0N OR 83R0P OR 83R0Q OR 83R0R OR 83R0S
OR 83R0T OR 83R0V OR 83R0W OR 83R0Y OR 83R0Z OR 83R0 OR 8R200 OR 8R300)

Examples of Military Ranks

 (E5 OR E6 OR E7 OR E8 OR E9 OR O1 OR O2 OR O3 OR O4 OR O5) OR (E-5 OR E-6 OR E-

7 OR E-8 OR O-1 OR O-2 OR O-3 OR O-4 OR O-5)
 “Petty Officer” OR MCPO OR SCPO OR PO1 OR CPO OR Lieutenant OR LCDR OR
Commander OR CDR OR Captain
 “Warrant Officer” OR WO2 OR WO3 OR WO4 OR WO5
 “Master Sergeant” OR CMSgt OR SMSgt OR MSgt OR ”Technical Sergeant” OR TSgt OR
Major OR Maj OR Colonel OR LtCol
 “Sergeant Major” OR SgtMaj OR CSM OR SGM OR MSG OR “First Sergeant” OR 1SG OR
“Sergeant First Class” OR SFC OR “Staff Sergeant” OR “SSG” OR “Gunnery Sergeant” OR
MGySgt OR “First Sergeant” OR 1stSgt OR “Master Sergeant” OR MSgt OR “Gunnery
Sergeant” OR GySgt OR SSgt

Companies that Hire/Employ people with clearances:

 Lockheed Martin
 Northrop Grumman Corporation
 Boeing
 BAE Systems
 GDIT
 General Dynamics
 General Dynamics Mission Systems
 Raytheon
 Northrop Grumman
 EADS, Finmeccanica
 L-3 Communications
 L3 Technologies
 CGI
 CGI Inc.
 United Technologies
 SAIC
 AECOM
 Leidos
 CACI
 Mantech
 KeyW
 KEYW Corporation
 Huntington Ingalls Corporation
 Booz Allen Hamilton
 BAH
 Harris Corporation
 Textron Inc.
 Honeywell
 GE Aviation
 Bechtel
 Orbital ATK
 Perspecta
 Rockwell Collins
 Aerojet Rocketdyne
 Oshkosh Defense
 KBR
 DynCorp International
 Fluor
 PAE
 Vectrus
 Cubic
 Curtiss-Wright
 Moog Inc.
 Engility
 ViaSat
 Ball
 Day & Zimmerman
 AAR
 Battelle