Friend w/High Clearance Lost Contract

[treadhead88]

Jacobs at APG/ATC is hiring, check the link: https://jacobs.taleo.net/careersection/ex/jobsearch.ftl?lang=en

 

[sundaeman]

Raytheon and Asymetrix are looking for people. Saw the signs on NBP last week.

 

[dlmarion]

I didn't see a response as to whether or not he was in the IT field.

 

[Squaregrouper]

I didn't see a response as to whether or not he was in the IT field.

I'm waiting to hear back from him. I feel comfortable saying they are at church. They are very devout Christians.
I will try to get him to join MDS as well.

 

[BeoBill]

The clearance process is broken and has been for a long time. I would sat it started with the Carter administration if I had to pick a time period. Agencies need to be brought back into the fold as far as security clearances go. The cost of having each agency decide their security policy is costing the American people millions of dollars in wasted investigations and lost productivity. Maybe our President-elect might be able to rein them in.

True that. The Moynahan Report proposed some sensible things that would fix things quickly and easily, but the individual stovepipes remain to this day.

 

[Squaregrouper]

TMI???
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[Trepang]

But, the first rule of TS/SI contracting......find out who won the new contract!!! They will probably need cleared experienced people to fulfill their obligations. I know guys that have been cleared contractors in the same positions for the 33 years I've been there....they just changed employers every three to five years. Usually go out working for X on Friday, cone back working for Y on Monday.

THIS! I see it all the time.

 

[lonzo]

OP, that's enough info and might be a little too much...please do not put anything else and I would suggest deleting it

 

[CrazySanMan]

If he wants to move to Denver we have multiple positions for him. He might even get company paid relocation out of it.

 

[photoracer]

I have been working on the same basic contract with DVA since 2006 in IT. The VA wrote the contracts differently each time. Sometimes they said they would prefer the same people be rehired by the new company and sometimes they just said no disruption in continuity since the contract is 24/7 monitoring of their data center. Any down time was threatened as non-performance of the contract. The incumbent on this contract has never won a re-compete, so I have worked for 5 different companies. Just the way it is in government contract work.

 

[photoracer]

My wife's best friend's husband was a Marine working deep inside Ft Meade. His USMC enlistment ended, and he continued as a civilian contractor. His employer just lost their contract and he will soon be an unemployed new father.
Is anyone looking for an employee with TS-SCI with a CI Polygraph? I don't know what that means, but I know he couldn't share 99.9% of his workday with his own wife.

Sounds like when I worked at NSA at the end of my military career and immediately landed on an R&D contract for the CIA as a civilian with an engineering company.

 

[DutchV]

Tell him to post his resume on Monster, Indeed and CareerBuilder. Use Dice if he's an IT guy. First thing in the profile should be "US Citizen with TS/SCI (etc.) Clearance". I doubt he'll be out of work for very long, assuming that he doesn't just end up with a new employer at the exact same job.

 

[axshon]

PM me also when you know his field of expertise. There may be some things engineering-related or IT-related that I can give pointers to. My understanding is that the employer sponsors the clearance so when the employer goes away so does the clearance. It can be reactivated through the next employer but it is a paper shuffle at the very least.

My prediction is that if he has kept his skills tuned up he will land something comparable before he gets his final payout from his old employer. It's a good market.

And tell him Semper Fi!

 

[dreadpirate]

Send me a PM and the guys resume; I may be able to hook you up.