[150654] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Programmers with network engineering skills
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Wed Feb 29 14:13:46 2012
To: George Herbert <george.herbert@gmail.com>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Feb 2012 14:12:51 -0500
In-Reply-To: <CAK__KzvRe+6G3t74sjD7n=nOCLjjyXKRvEM3QA+O8ZRwWqxEhw@mail.gmail.com> (George
Herbert's message of "Mon, 27 Feb 2012 17:15:10 -0800")
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>> Is clearance the problem, or the ability to obtain clearance due to
>> something in their background? If your work requires it, you should have
>> some recourse for applicants to obtain the required clearance, no?
>
> My understanding is that while primary and subcontractor companies can
> put people in the sponsoring organization's clearance granting queue,
> it takes so long to get someone through the queue that for high-level
> positions they essentially make having the clearance already a
> prerequisite.
Things have gotten a lot better than they used to be. My
understanding is that these days a DoD collateral TS is routinely
completed in < 6 months.
-r
