DoD, Space Force, and IC-facing contractors hire under constraints commercial recruiters do not understand. Clearances, set-aside dynamics, capture cycles, and compliance regimes shape every senior hire.
Cleared executive recruiting is a different discipline. Candidate pools shrink by an order of magnitude when a TS or TS/SCI is required. Compensation runs on its own market. And the best cleared operators maintain deliberately thin public footprints, which means job postings and databases do not reach them. Direct, relationship-led search does.
We speak clearance levels, prime and sub dynamics, OTAs, and recompete risk natively. That fluency means intake happens in one meeting instead of four, and candidates take our calls because we understand the work they actually do.
Tell us about the seat and the clearance, and we will tell you honestly what the market looks like.
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