January 2007
Monthly Archive
Microsoft Clearance Jobs?
Posted by admin on 26 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Chit-Chat, Cleared Career Advice, Cleared News
Most people don’t associate the Redmond giant with the U.S. defense industry. If you think about it, it makes total sense. Microsoft employs some of the world’s leading computer scientists, and has hardware that even the government is envious of. Jobs like Senior Infrastructure Consultant and Windows High Performance Computing Developer require a TS/SCI security clearance and having a Polygraph is a plus. Sounds like NSA work to me, which I’m told is some of the most challenging IT work in the world.
Similar jobs from Google keep popping up too. Is this even remotely surprising?
DSS: Contractors Beware of Canadian Coins
Posted by admin on 11 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Chit-Chat, Cleared News
This is an odd story, but apparently 100% true. Those pesky Canadians have been slipping coins with tiny radio transmitters hidden inside in the pants of U.S. contractors visiting the country. I’m not entirely sure how contractors would be singled out specifically, but that’s beside the point. The Defense Security Service issued the warning yesterday.
On three occasions between October 2005 and January 2006, U.S. defense contractors with security clearance travelling in Canada were targeted. Naturally, the Canadian intelligence agency claims they have no knowledge of the coins.
Boom Expected in Hiring Security-Cleared workers
Posted by admin on 10 Jan 2007 | Tagged as: Chit-Chat, Cleared Career Advice, Cleared News
From Federal Computer Week:
The hiring of workers with security clearances is expected to surge the first quarter of 2007 as a result of the many multimillion-dollar Department of Defense contracts that were awarded in December, according to the first edition of the ClearanceJobs Report for 2007.
According to ClearanceJobs.com, an online recruiting service, those estimates could change because although some employers post jobs online that are contingent upon a contract award, many job seekers don’t like applying for positions that don’t yet exist.
According to a 2006 survey conducted by Federal Computer Week, the Information Technology Association of America and a coalition of industry organizations, more than three-fourths of government contractors agreed that the need for cleared employees to work on federal contracts had increased “greatly†(51 percent) or “somewhat†(26 percent) in the past five years.
But more than half the respondents believed the security clearance process, run by the Defense Security Service and OPM, had worsened (31 percent) or not improved at all (24 percent) in the past year.
