Many cleared small companies do not understand what is expected of them to maintain NISPOM compliance or cannot do all of the work themselves to maintain personnel clearance processing, education materials and records maintenance. FSO TO GO, Inc. can help you get off on the right compliance “foot” and keep you prepared as you go. Our consulting staff has years of Facility Security Officer training and experience. Many have come to us after retiring from different government organizations. We understand the rules and requirements placed on the Facility Security Officer, the Facility and its Personnel. We can prepare you for Security Audits and Reviews. We can take the burden of paperwork and documentation off of your FSO staff and Corporate Management.

Pursuing cleared contracts with the Federal Government can provide a tremendous opportunity for companies that offer services the Government needs. However, many companies find themselves quickly overwhelmed by the process involved with maintaining cleared contracts. Don’t worry, because FSO TO GO, Inc. was created to take the administrative burden off of your senior executives.

We have found that facility operations managers are often quite exceptional at all areas of facility management except one – understanding the facility’s physical security needs. That’s where we come in. We help assess physical security risk. We often help to design and orchestrate the construction of secure space to meet accreditation requirements.

FSO TO GO, Inc. knows the processes and procedures required for emergency preparedness and government compliance. Facility managers look to us for advice and guidance on how to properly secure the facility to ensure accreditation. As leaders in SCIF design and accreditation, we help them understand what’s needed when building SCIFs, such as:

• Peripheral Security
• Construction
• Intrusion Detection Systems
• Communications Systems
• Acoustical Protection
• Facility Control
• Process, Procedures, Training and Accreditation
• Network, systems and IT security engineering installation and migration

Whether your company is a newly-sponsored facility who is just learning what the National Industrial Security Program Operations Manual (NISPOM), Facility Security Officer (FSO), and Defense Security Service (DSS) are, or your company has been cleared for years and you have grown out of your corporate and/or industrial security procedures, we can help you create and maintain a more robust, compliant, and economical security program. We intimately understand what companies need to do to ensure security compliance and how to ensure that what needs to get done gets done as efficiently and effectively as possible.

Thousands of companies have security clearances however a large number of these companies waste valuable time and money by having inefficient procedures in place. FSO TO GO, Inc. helps companies truly understand their security requirements and implement the smartest, most efficient way to manage them. We are expert in the security requirements for the vast majority of Federal agencies and can help you implement proper programs. Let us provide you with a top down assessment and requirements compliance survey of your industrial and corporate security program.

FSO TO GO, Inc. offers a practical approach to foreign ownership, control or influence (FOCI) management, process, documentation and compliance issues. Having foreign ownership does not exclude a company from obtaining a favorable National Industrial Security Program determination. We know the actions that can be taken to effectively negate or reduce associated risk.

We can help your law firm or company with the following:

• Negotiate FOCI negation agreements with the US Department of Defense Defense Security Service (DSS), including proxy agreements, special security agreements, and other security control agreements.
• Advise independent boards of directors and government security committees in connection with FOCI companies.
• Develop FOCI compliance and corporate governance programs.
• Buy America Act issues.
• Foreign Corrupt Practices Act issues.
• Facility Security Program Policy, Procedure, and Clearance Documentation procedures to get a FOCI Facility set up right.

The Federal Government issues tens of millions of dollars in grants to colleges and universities each year. These grants may be to help develop prevention and combative strategies against bio-terrorism or other challenges facing the nation. Other grants are for research in nanotechnology, biology, applied physics, math, fusion, and aeronautics. The Department of Energy is one of the main sources of these grants to universities.

As these higher educational institutions continue to search for ways to fund their research, seeking grants from the Federal Government may be an excellent way to accomplish this. However, many of these grants require that the university have secured facilities. If these universities do not have clearance, they cannot pursue the grant riches that may be available to them. Some universities may have cleared professors and are missing golden opportunities. Universities that are not pursuing cleared status may be missing out on tremendous sources of funding.

FSO TO GO, Inc. can help your university figure out what is needed to become cleared and prepare cleared facilities (secure facilities) to pursue these opportunities.

Recruiters, staffing firms, and headhunters are the industry’s link between cleared contractors and the government looking to fill cleared jobs worldwide. It is critical that recruiters understand the needs of cleared contractors in the hiring process, such as what questions to ask potential staff and how to validate the current cleared status of the potential hires. Corporate recruiters face the same challenges in the hiring process but must also rely on their security departments to give them valuable clearance information when sifting through hundreds of resumes for one position on their own.

FSO TO GO, Inc. can train your recruiters on how to obtain security clearances, and what are the differences in different classifications, agencies and time frames for security classification. How long will it take to process a specific kind of clearance to be utilized by another cleared company and a different cleared contract/agency from the last contract that potential employee worked on. Often, companies have little to no overhead budget to hold new staff on while clearances are being processed, so recruiters must make a perfect match 100 percent of the time. FSO TO GO can train your recruiters to understand everything they need to do to make those perfect matches.