Ref. 10 years: that was a previous policy. TS clearance re-investigations are on a 5-year basis now.
Ref. clearance: Titan wouldn’t own your clearance. They would own the billet which your clearance was associated with. The clearance is yours, not the company’s. So, if you went from one contractor to another, the responsible officials holding your clearance (at Titan) would have to do what they call a transfer-in-status to ESN in order for your access to remain active without interruption.
Bottom line: if you have a clearance but you’re not in a cleared billet, you won’t have access to classified information.
Yeah, I keep forgetting how long ago it was that I had a TS-SCI. And now that you explain the ownership of the clearance that does ring a bell. I just remembered that my new company had to do some negotiating with my old company to get it so I could start doing SCI work again, as I remember it took about a month or six weeks, and I remember that because it was all in office mundane work till I could get back to working with the NSGA and get out on the aircraft carriers again. Thanks for the memory refresher.
But dirty things do go on, I remember that Titan was pissed that I left and followed the contract to ESN and that is why they made it difficult for the clearance to follow me. And yes until it all got straightened out, I was not allowed to do any Tiger Team work or any technical assists to the NSGA, couldn’t do any of the good stuff.