[Novalug] OT: Baiting Beltway Bandits [was: What is your "Linux admin IQ?"

mikepodoherty@netscape.net mikepodoherty@netscape.net
Tue Oct 6 19:29:07 EDT 2009


Clearances are expensive to process - guess who pays to cost - if it is 
a contractor - the contractor pays.  Another reason that folks with 
clearances are worth a premium to those who do the hiring.



Mike





-----Original Message-----

From: James Ewing Cottrell 3rd <JECottrell3@Comcast.NET>

To: Tux Subscriber Dave Aronson <tux2dave@davearonson.com>

Cc: Novalug <novalug@calypso.tux.org>

Sent: Mon, Oct 5, 2009 11:07 am

Subject: Re: [Novalug] OT: Baiting Beltway Bandits [was: What is your 
"Linux admin IQ?"]





















Tux Subscriber Dave Aronson wrote:

> American Dave <novalug@soupy.org> wrote:

>

>> Security clearances are formalities.  Most places that

>> "require" them are perfectly willing to sponsor them.

>

> Er, sort of.  IF they have profitable uncleared (or lower-cleared

> work, if you have a lower clearance) work for you to do while the

> clearance "bakes", and they don't need the cleared spot filled

> immediately, then yes.  However, this combination does seem to be a

> rarity.  In the vast majority of cases they'll happily pay a premium

> for someone with a clearance already.

>

> -Dave



If I were the DoD, I wouldn't give any company that didn't have

Uncleared Work any Cleared work, because they would be Incapable of

Parking their Uncleared People.



Also, from what I have heard recently, Clearances don't come

Incrementally, they come "All At Once". So if you are being 
investigated

for a TS, you are either Cleared at TS Level or Uncleared. No Interim,

Confidential, or Secret Levels. This is Just Plain Stupid, as is 
Redoing

  the work. While Clearances need to be Updated, Past Investigation

Results need to Be Remembered.



And wasn't the DHS gonna straighten out all this Clearance Redundancy

Mess anyway?!?



JIM

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