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Tuesday, September 16, 2008

Jobs: Unarmed Security for Disaster Relief, Texas

Filed under: Disaster Response,Jobs,Texas — Tags: , , , , — Matt @ 11:28 PM

Triple Canopy

 

Security Guard

Operational/Corp Intermittent Employee

Location                         Texas

Department                 Operations

Position Schedule Intermittent Employee

   

Job Description

Location     

Texas

 

Reports To     

Project Manager

 

Position Summary

Contingent upon contract award. Unarmed guard for disaster relief. Approximate length of contract is 30 days.

 

Position Responsibilities

•Unarmed security in support of disaster relief

 

Essential Skills and Experience

•US Citizen

•Honorable discharge from the military (if applicable)

•Four years military and/or law enforcement experience

•Force Protection experience

•Must have no felony or domestic violence conviction. Record of recent recurring misdemeanors may adversely impact candidate’s suitability rating

•Employment with Triple Canopy is contingent upon a favorable background check

 

Physical Demands and Work Environment

Able to perform unarmed security guard services with limited support.

 

General 

Must adhere to and support company polices, procedures and standards. Triple Canopy, Inc. is an equal opportunity employer

 

Apply Here

 

Technology: Social Networking Technology, The War, and Security Contractors

Filed under: Technology — Tags: , , , , — Matt @ 1:57 PM

 

     Ok, this is a plea to the powers that be.  If civilian contractors are the second largest force that is assisting in this war with 133,196 (2007 CENTCOM Census) +/- contractors out there, why do we not have access to a network?  This TIGR system, or basically Myspace for the military is an awesome idea.  But it completely ignores the input from thousands of us security contractors overseas that actually have some good intel on the various areas.

     Or if we cannot be involved with TIGR, then set up a separate system for us?  It makes sense to me, and in many ways, we all are communicating on various forms of social networks.  Forums for one, has been a huge deal for uniting contractors and passing down information. But forums are also poorly organized.  Myspace and Facebook are popular too, but yet again, they are not organized to suite the main goal of enhancing the war effort.  Nor are these outlets necessarily secure.  So really, OPSEC and PERSEC is left to the whims of those posters or the moderators of forums.  

     I say an easy solution to all of this, is to create a secure TIGR type system for contractors, that could be monitored by someone in the proposed Advisory Corps that John Nagl proposed.  Or just find a relevant office, in the sea of departments in the DOD or DOS that could babysit something like this.  

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Disaster Response: Update on Hurricane Ike, By Doug

Filed under: Disaster Response,Texas — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 8:34 AM

 

Update on Hurricane Ike and the Texas disaster response.

By Doug

 

Many of my friends & their familes are involved in rebuilding houstons infrastructure.

Things are still bad in places. lots of folks still crapping in buckets & sitting around candles at night.

Things are improving rapidly.  everyone is very optimistic 60% of houston will be electrified by thursday night.

Power crews working night and day. 

The water has just been announced that it is clean to drink from the tap.

Gas is a problem though.  most gas lines are still long, but it is a lot better than yesterday.

So its good to hear that even though it is still bad. things are improving rapidly.

Give it 2-3 more weeks and most things will be back to almost normal.

Though it will take months to clean up all the debris

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Monday, September 15, 2008

News: Feral Jundi Update – Small Wars Journal and Defense Industry Daily Widgets

Filed under: News — Tags: , , , — Matt @ 11:57 AM

     I wanted to add two new widgets to FJ for everyone to check out if they want.  One is the Defense Industry Daily and the other one is Small Wars Journal(which Nagl is one of the contributing authors of).  If the readership would like to see any other widgets, I am open for suggestions.  

     And by the way, the way these widgets work, is that they are miniature RSS(Really Simple Syndication) readers.  Every time that website or blog updates and adds new information, my widgets read that and post it.  

     So like I have mentioned before, keep an eye on them, because new jobs or news or important industry stuff comes in all the time.

     You can also grab these widgets for yourself and put them up on your Myspace, Facebook, websites or whatever, and check them out on your own site.  They are great for adding content to your site.  

     Also, I have a Feral Jundi widget available for anyone if they are interested. And at this time, about 12 readers have set up this widget on their websites.  If you would like further instructions about these things,  let me know and I will hook you up. –Head Jundi 

Technology: Taliban Using Skype Phones to Dodge Intelligence Agencies

Filed under: Afghanistan,Technology — Tags: , , , , — Matt @ 11:12 AM

    I want to thank one of my readers for sending me this story, and this kind of thing is just one more reality about the various technologies out there and how they are being used in the war.  That the enemy is a learning organization, and they have figured out that Skype is a secure enough communications apparatus to use.  

   But my thoughts on this is that quite possibly the intel agencies out there already know how to crack the encryption of VOIP calls, or their Data Mining capabilities are already monitoring the Skype stuff, and that this story was just designed to give the impression that Skype is impenetrable.  

     One thing is for sure, stories like this make it very clear to the enemy that their method of communications is receiving intense focus. –Head Jundi  

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Skype 

Taliban using Skype phones to dodge MI6

 

By Glen Owen

Last updated at 11:10 PM  

13th September 2008

Taliban fighters targeting British troops in Afghanistan are using the latest ‘internet phones’ to evade detection by MI6, security sources said last night. 

Skype, a popular piece of consumer software that allows free calls to be made over the web, has been adopted by insurgents to communicate with cells strung out across the country. 

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