If you want government contracts, employees of the contractor also have to have the same level of clearance necessary as the government employee.
This is non-news.
This is non-news.
I don't know what the hell "the government employee" means, but the clearance levels of government personnel are irrelevant with respect to classified contracts. The clearance requirements for the contractor are spelled out in the DD254 (for DOD-classified programs).
Useful information, a red herring to determining how unique or nefarious facebook is here.
Everyone is already doing it. You can make $200,000+ a few years out of college as a software engineer if you go the TS-SCI clearance route, from any third tier state school. Oh look and now you can also apply to Facebook with that skillset and clearance.
A company with thousands upon thousand of full stack engineers getting work for full stack engineers? Wow sound the alarms lets speculate on what the contract is!
And yes, they probably also are trying to leverage their broad infrastructure for department of defense applications.
Along with a disappointing salary, you also get industry leading job instability. Enjoy job cuts every two years -- sign up to be a defense contractor today!