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Just to comment a bit more on the security clearance questions: You cannot get a security clearance yourself. You also cannot hold one indefinitely without a reason to have it. If you needed it and then you quit/move to a job that doesn't require it, you will lose it after some "grace period" generally. To get a clearance requires a "sponsor" which is some company (or the government itself) who are doing work that has been deemed worthy of such a thing. If it's a company, the company is required to foot the bill to get you a clearance. If it's the government, they don't care but they (we all are) paying for it too. Joining the military is a way to get a SECRET clearance pretty easily. If you do intelligence work or something else requiring access to something higher, you will be put in for a TOP SECRET access. The costs associated with getting a security clearance can vary wildly depending on your personal history. If you want to see a form you will be commonly required to fill out look at OPM form SF-86: http://www.opm.gov/Forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf. This is a very common "entry point" for getting a security clearance (at least for a TOP SECRET, I suspect a SECRET clearance is something much less intrusive). Cost and time to get a clearance are also directly correlated to the type of clearance required. A SECRET clearance can usually be had pretty quickly as long as you don't have a felony record and aren't on some FBI watch list. A TOP SECRET or TOP SECRET SCI clearance could take anywhere from a couple of months to a year (or more) to come through. If you are employed by a company, that means they have to put you on the payroll to get you processed for the clearance and then pay you to sit around not doing what they hired you for until you get said clearance. You can see where this is going... My guess is that most job postings that say they require an active clearance means "we're not going to pay to get you a clearance and for you to wait around for it". You could always apply and see what happens though!
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