In category: Networking
Veterans’ Preference Does Not Apply to Contractor Jobs – Here Is What Does
The first six words of 5 U.S.C. 2108 decide the question. "For the purpose of this title" is how the section defining a preference eligible opens, and that title governs federal government employees. A Leidos requisition at Aberdeen sits outside it, and so does a Booz Allen slot … more
W-2, 1099, or Corp-to-Corp on a Cleared Contract: Which One Actually Pays More
One sentence in the industrial-security rule decides more than any tax table. 32 CFR 117.10(a)(7): contractors "will not submit requests for determination of eligibility ... for individuals who are not their employees or consultants; nor ... for employees of subcontractors." Read… more
Hiring an FSO: Salary Benchmark, Assistant FSOs, and When to Outsource the Role
The federal government has no occupational code for the job you are trying to price. An O*NET OnLine search for "facility security officer" returns 674 occupations by relevance, none carrying it as an occupation or alternate title. Created by regulation, staffed everywhere, measu… more
Do Government Contractors Get Paid During a Shutdown?
When Congress ended the 2025 shutdown on November 12, 2025, it did not forget the people who had gone unpaid. Section 116 of Public Law 119-37 made federal employees whole. Section 120 rescinded reduction-in-force notices issued during the lapse and returned those employees to du… more
Which Jobs Actually Require a Secret Clearance – and Which Ones Only Say They Do
On October 1, 2017, 1,198,684 people held eligibility for access to classified information and were in access to nothing at all. No document, no program, no compartment. They were 29.7 percent of the 4,030,625 individuals ODNI counted as eligible that year, and it is the most rec… more