The State Department has begun testing a Pentagon-operated system to track private security guards protecting U.S. diplomats in Afghanistan, according to a Defense Department official. Officials are in the process of entering personal and work-related data from 1,600 private security contractors hired by the State Department for jobs in the volatile country into the military's Synchronized Predeployment and Operational Tracker (SPOT) database, said DOD's Gary Motsek in a Jan. 29 interview with InsideDefense.com . Motsek is the assistant deputy under...
