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If you want government contracts, employees of the contractor also have to have the same level of clearance necessary as the government employee. This is non-n

If you want government contracts, employees of the contractor also have to have the same level of clearance necessary as the government employee. This is non-news.

jacobra2 9y ago
Honest question, what kind of government contracts do you think facebook is bidding on?
- zerotolerance 9y ago
  I'd guess VR (Oculus) applications
- syshum 9y ago
  Skynet
- ringaroundthetx 9y ago
  Any random full stack engineer off the street could apply to any government contract, reply to RFPs, and bid on anything. Everyone is already doing it. You can make $200,000+ a few years out of college as a software engineer if you go the TS-SCI clearance route, from any third tier state school. Oh look and now you can also apply to Facebook with that skillset and clearance. A company with thousands upon thousand of full stack engineers getting work for full stack engineers? Wow sound the alarms lets speculate on what the contract is! And yes, they probably also are trying to leverage their broad infrastructure for department of defense applications.
  - rhexs 9y ago
    FYI the average defense contractor engineer isn't paid nearly that much (as compared to true private industry) and puts in quite a bit of free OT. Senior/PM salaries may get that high in DC but I don't think that is anywhere near the norm. There can be a lot of money made in defense, but it's almost always in the marketing/sales/guys winning the contracts. Most of those guys are ex-government. Along with a disappointing salary, you also get industry leading job instability. Enjoy job cuts every two years -- sign up to be a defense contractor today!
vonmoltke 9y ago
What are you talking about? A company needs a facility clearance in order to work on classified contracts. It will also need some employees cleared at the level of the contract in order to do the work, and a Facility Security Officer cleared at the level of the facility. I don't know what the hell "the government employee" means, but the clearance levels of government personnel are irrelevant with respect to classified contracts. The clearance requirements for the contractor are spelled out in the DD254 (for DOD-classified programs).
- ringaroundthetx 9y ago
  It wasn't that ambiguous. A government employee can have anything from a civilian clearance to a top secret clearance with whatever additional riders necessary to get them access to the information on that project. Useful information, a red herring to determining how unique or nefarious facebook is here.

If you want government contracts, employees of the contractor also have to have the same level of clearance necessary as the government employee. This is non-news.

jacobra2 9y ago

Honest question, what kind of government contracts do you think facebook is bidding on?

zerotolerance 9y ago
I'd guess VR (Oculus) applications
syshum 9y ago
Skynet
ringaroundthetx 9y ago
Any random full stack engineer off the street could apply to any government contract, reply to RFPs, and bid on anything. Everyone is already doing it. You can make $200,000+ a few years out of college as a software engineer if you go the TS-SCI clearance route, from any third tier state school. Oh look and now you can also apply to Facebook with that skillset and clearance. A company with thousands upon thousand of full stack engineers getting work for full stack engineers? Wow sound the alarms lets speculate on what the contract is! And yes, they probably also are trying to leverage their broad infrastructure for department of defense applications.
- rhexs 9y ago
  FYI the average defense contractor engineer isn't paid nearly that much (as compared to true private industry) and puts in quite a bit of free OT. Senior/PM salaries may get that high in DC but I don't think that is anywhere near the norm. There can be a lot of money made in defense, but it's almost always in the marketing/sales/guys winning the contracts. Most of those guys are ex-government. Along with a disappointing salary, you also get industry leading job instability. Enjoy job cuts every two years -- sign up to be a defense contractor today!

vonmoltke 9y ago

What are you talking about? A company needs a facility clearance in order to work on classified contracts. It will also need some employees cleared at the level of the contract in order to do the work, and a Facility Security Officer cleared at the level of the facility. I don't know what the hell "the government employee" means, but the clearance levels of government personnel are irrelevant with respect to classified contracts. The clearance requirements for the contractor are spelled out in the DD254 (for DOD-classified programs).

ringaroundthetx 9y ago
It wasn't that ambiguous. A government employee can have anything from a civilian clearance to a top secret clearance with whatever additional riders necessary to get them access to the information on that project. Useful information, a red herring to determining how unique or nefarious facebook is here.