Hello team - new here.
Have a question that it’s burning in my mind for a while, and I wanted to see the opinions of people here.
I’m trying to get back, sometime, to government projects. I’ve not been in one for a while; since the pandemic I’ve been doing mostly commercial work.
Back in 2019, I did work for a government contractor. At one time, I had to take a compliance training, and then upload the certificate to the company’s file servers. Thing is, I did this training on my personal device (an iPad). What ended up happening was that I uploaded a porn image instead of the certificate. A single image.
Like I mentioned, this was my personal device. It wasn’t child porn and it wasn’t that much of a graphic image; that is, the picture did not depict a graphic act of sex. Won’t go much into details on the image itself.
Anyhow. I was called on it, of course. I erased the image and replaced it with the certificate. My supervisor did also called me out on it, but I didn’t meet with HR, nor was I formally reprimanded for it (I did not get an email / letter from HR).
This was NOT on a GFE. The company allowed access to its systems on many devices, including iPads. I was just careless / distracted taking this training (I was watching TV at the same time. I know, I should be paying attention to the training but frankly, sometimes, when you take one of these trainings you can (almost) recite them back by memory).
I’m on a private company now with no government contracts, and I’m not 100% looking for a move right now. But I am making some background moves to see if I can get back to a government contractor role at some point. How should I address this in my SF-86? Mention it? Let it slide and wait to see if the investigator is alerted by that old company? This behavior is not habitual on me; I normally don’t browse the internet for that stuff.
Thanks.