Cost of a Base

[tsofian]

Originally Posted by cosmicfish

My employer had the total rate at $30k for the investigation, but much of that cost is borne by the government. And that is just the investigation, not counting recruiting costs. In practice, TMP would be much more expensive.

The cost of such things has risen considerable, not counting inflation. There is so much more data available on a person now, so many more things to check. in the period from 1960-1990 a security clearance didn't have to check credit scores, on line sources, social media. In addition people tended to be less mobile and do less job hopping, which makes a background check a lot simpler.

[Desert Mariner]

Originally Posted by tsofian

The cost of such things has risen considerable, not counting inflation. There is so much more data available on a person now, so many more things to check. in the period from 1960-1990 a security clearance didn't have to check credit scores, on line sources, social media. In addition people tended to be less mobile and do less job hopping, which makes a background check a lot simpler.

Conversely, costs are reduced in some areas because of the glut of online information. Where you had to have investigators on the ground performing exhaustive individual interviews, you now can get the big picture by "Google it".

[Gelrir]

Originally Posted by tsofian

The cost of such things has risen considerable, not counting inflation. There is so much more data available on a person now, so many more things to check. in the period from 1960-1990 a security clearance didn't have to check credit scores, on line sources, social media. In addition people tended to be less mobile and do less job hopping, which makes a background check a lot simpler.

A couple of data points:

• In the late 1980s I was working at Wells Fargo student loans, a few times a year we had visits from the Defense Investigative Service checking on all the information on certain students' loan application paperwork (the references, addresses, etc.)
  
• My brother was in the Army in the mid-1980s, and had a Secret or maybe Top Secret clearance ... the background investigation included investigators speaking with people who'd paid him to mow their lawns during high school.
  
• I'm pretty sure the DIS checked TRW, TransUnion, and other credit score systems back then, too ... we had a little terminal for those agencies in the student loan center at the time.

A possible added complication: the Morrow Project's background check is in many cases being performed on someone who doesn't know it's happening, and thus isn't cooperating.

In our current campaign it's presumed that the Morrow Project is "piggybacking" on government background checks of Council of Tomorrow corporate employees for a lot of the clearances.

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Michael B.

[dragoon500ly]

A possible added complication: the Morrow Project's background check is in many cases being performed on someone who doesn't know it's happening, and thus isn't cooperating.

In our current campaign it's presumed that the Morrow Project is "piggybacking" on government background checks of Council of Tomorrow corporate employees for a lot of the clearances.

In my games, I often have the players hired into one of Morrow Industries defense technology divisions, helps when the government handles those security background checks...

[tsofian]

Originally Posted by dragoon500ly

In my games, I often have the players hired into one of Morrow Industries defense technology divisions, helps when the government handles those security background checks...

I have done the same, or at least had Morrow get access to government files.