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I'm open to hearing perspectives if you have personal experience or friends with experience here, but that has not been what I've found to be true. My int / mi
by 3pt14159 8y ago
I'm open to hearing perspectives if you have personal experience or friends with experience here, but that has not been what I've found to be true.
My int / mil friends got in quite easily once they possessed the skills. They were all white, non-muslim, non-Russian and born in Canada or the US, but other than that even people with dual citizenships got S or TS clearance and worked on some crazy ass shit.
- 01100011 8y agoDid they get their TS clearance without being sponsored by a company who was already doing business with the government? It's my understanding that you need to get your start working for an existing government contractor and then you can branch out on your own. I don't know of anyone who went straight from, say, college into getting TS and starting a military contracting company. Also there are a ton of rules when dealing with the military that often require experience with those sorts of arrangements. Even my company, with extensive experience in that area, received a substantial fine because we bid on work which we no longer qualified for.
- 3pt14159 8y agoOh, this is where we have different experience. I went to Waterloo, which is generally where a ton of our top CS and Engineering grads come from. Many (both Canadian and American citizens) went straight into spookware or military gear with no prior connections.