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Title: Multiple retirements leave Air Force facing a shortage of researchers
Source: The Buffalo News
URL Source: http://buffalonews.com/2014/06/02/m ... ing-a-shortage-of-researchers/
Published: Jun 2, 2014
Author: Barrie Barber
Post Date: 2017-03-13 15:44:57 by A Pole
Keywords: technology, military, outsourcing
Views: 1726
Comments: 17

DAYTON, Ohio — The number of scientists and engineers retiring at the Air Force’s top science research agency has doubled in the last five years, and defense experts say the trend could lead to a shortage because a growing number of highly trained workers are eligible to leave.

The Air Force Research Laboratory, headquartered at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Ohio, has a workforce with about half the employees age 50 or older. This year, 20 percent of the agency’s scientists and engineers were eligible for retirement; by 2018, that figure will reach 33 percent.

The Air Force reportedly has lost nearly 30 percent of its top senior scientists the last two years, as well.

Former Lockheed Martin Corp. Chairman Norman R. Augustine said he expects a future shortage of engineers and scientists, which could impact national security. For decades, the United States has relied on superior technology to maintain an edge against adversaries.

“I do think it puts us at risk, and one of the greatest dangers is, it takes a long time” to find replacements, said Augustine, a co-chairman of a National Academy of Sciences committee in 2012 that reviewed the status of the science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, workforce in the Department of Defense and U.S. defense industry.

“You don’t just turn the spigot on and say we’ll have more engineers.”

A 2010 National Academy of Sciences study projected a shortage of scientists and engineers between 2015 and 2020, said George K. Muellner, a former Boeing Co. executive who was a co-chairman of the review.

Budget instability caused last year by sequestration — from civilian furloughs to grounded jets — could hurt Air Force recruitment of civilian scientists and engineers, the retired Air Force lieutenant general said.

“To be frank, if they’re not able to start providing some stability to the folks they hire, they’re not going to compete well at all,” said Muellner, a past president of the American Association of Astronautics and Aeronautics.

The status of the Department of Defense science and engineering workforce has attracted the attention of Congress. As part of the fiscal year 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, lawmakers required the Pentagon to report on STEM workforce needs by last March.

The Defense Department missed the deadline but says a report will be released.

The military and defense and national security contractors face the challenge of competing for a limited number of graduate school students. Many students in U.S. graduate schools are foreign citizens not eligible for security clearances.

“Now you’ve cut the pool of graduate students in half that we’re eligible to go after, and of the half that’s left, we’re competing with industries that are more lucrative,” said Scott Coale, a retired colonel and former vice commander of the Air Force Research Lab, or AFRL.

To work on a classified project at a Department of Defense lab, a scientist or engineer must be a U.S. citizen with a security clearance, said Pamela Swann, AFRL deputy director of personnel.

In limited circumstances, AFRL may employ foreign-born scientists or engineers who have a green card, or permanent U.S. residency but who do not work on classified projects, she said.

The 2010 study that reviewed the Air Force’s STEM needs noted “reason for concern as to whether the supply of scientists and engineers who can obtain a security clearance will be adequate to meet the future needs of the Air Force.”

The report on STEM needs said that while science and engineering degrees awarded increased 8 percent between 2000 and 2005, the number of those degrees awarded to U.S. citizens and permanent residents fell 5.5 percent. It also said women and minorities were a growing segment of potential recruits.

It urged the Air Force to take a “proactive role” to address shortfalls in math and science skills among middle and high school students.

Augustine said U.S. high school students fare poorly in international science and math tests and often have not shown the kind of interest in STEM careers their counterparts in other countries have demonstrated.


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William Gruff ·

Due to big-ticket items like new atomic submarines, aircraft carriers, the F-35, new atomic weapons, etc, the US has not had many resources left over to spend on improving their cruise missiles. Money isn't even the biggest constraint. The biggest resource shortage is engineers. Defense contractors cannot use Chinese, Russian, Indian or other foreign engineers working in the US on H1 visas because these engineers cannot get security clearance to work on defense projects. Few Americans are studying science or engineering these days because it is hard, and there are easier jobs that pay better.

China, Russia, and India, on the other hand, have lots and lots of engineers. China in particular has engineers coming out of their ears. They have so many engineers they don't know what to do with them all.

Westerners like to imagine America has lots of "secret black weapons", but the resources to make these projects a reality simply do not exist. Now, China on the other hand... they have resources for lots of kick-butt "secret black weapons".

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#1. To: sneakypete, ConservingFreedom, Willie Green, Vicomte13, TooConservative (#0)

Yak-141 “Freestyle”- The F-35B Was Born In Moscow

http://aviationintel.com/yak-141-freestyle-the-f-35b-was-born-in-moscow/

People look at the F-35B and see an ultra modern transformer of sorts, with massive doors that open up and an articulated exhaust tube that seems to warp downward unnaturally on command. The next thing you know the 5th generation stealth fighter is HOVERING IN MID AIR. Lay on decent range (for a V/STOL fighter), higher than mach speeds, and the most cutting edge radar and avionics package ever and you have a truly groundbreaking design…

…But is the F-35B’s unique design really that ground breaking at all?

The F-35B’s novel lift fan and vectoring tailpipe design was conceived not in Fort Worth, Texas but in Moscow, Russia, about 35+ years ago! The Yak-41 that utilized this exact same concept, now known as the Yak-141, NATO codename “Freestyle,” was designed to be what it’s much lacking Yak-38 predecessor should have been. It’s main role was to defend the Soviet Naval Fleet, and because of this task it had to be fast, fairly maneuverable and possess a relevant combat radius to get it to the boat and back. The aircraft would be supported by a new type Soviet carriers, optimized for protecting large flotillas and shipping lanes. Later in the program the aircraft would be seen as much more than just a Naval point defense fighter. Soviet Russia planned on procuring wheeled landing and takeoff platforms that could be dispersed throughout the countryside, allowing the Russian Air Force to operate Yak-141s dispersed across the countryside. With its innovative wheeled platform it was said that if a 4 wheel drive could get there the Yak-141 could have operated from there!

Like many promising late Soviet weapons and space programs the Yak-141 fell victim of a total lack of funding, but this happened well after the handful of test airframes had been flown and many of the major kinks had been identified so that the airframe could be refined in the later production examples. From most accounts the aircraft was a good performer. It possessed good maneuverability, fast cruise and dash speeds, had lots of room for gas and the latest avionics. All things being equal, the “Freestyle” may have been a major success for Red Russia, and could have thrived in the export market. By the fall of the Soviet Union in the early nineties the program was set aside by the Russian Government do to lack of funds. Yakovlev OKB went in search of an investing partner domestically without success. But not everyone looked over the fading Yak-141 program, Lockheed Martin jumped in where the fledging Russian government left off. Was LockMart’s involvement focused on exploiting Yak’s innovative design for possible use in the budding Joint Strike Fighter concept, that at the time had begun to gain traction in the Pentagon, or was their involvement actually focused on producing the aircraft for export as they initially indicated? Who knows, but Lockheed DID pay for the Yak-141 to fly at the Paris Air Show to promote the partnership (not 100% sure of this fact in the Yak-141’s timeline, feel free to drop me a note if this is wrong, going on memory here folks). What IS known is that what would usually be written off by the west as a clumsy Russian experimental design showed enough promise for Lockheed to not just show interest but fully partner in the program. There MUST have been a novel solution for their looming JSF challenge within the Yak-141’s design. It turns out there was.

The Yak-Lockmart partnership seemed to disappear into oblivion after an exciting and well publicized start. BUT by the mid 1990’s Lockheed was busy designing their prototype Joint Strike Fighter, known as the X-35, in preparations for a fly off between it and the Boeing X-32 at the turn of the millennium. The X-35 was REMARKABLY similar to the Yak-141 design concept and was much more mature (especially the VTOL “B” model) when compared to Boeing’s competing “Ugly Guppy” design. In the end the X-35 would beat the X-32 to become the US’s largest weapons program of all time. It cannot be denied that in some ways the victorious X-35 design was due to Yakovlev OKB’s hard work almost as much as it was Lockheed Martin’s, although 99% of the world will never know this.

Seeing the F-35B operating from a ship for the first time recently was like a total flashback to video of I vaguely remember watching as a kid of the Yak-141 operating from Admiral Gorshkov, and for good reason because the aircraft are indeed direct relatives of one another. So next time you see an energizing promotional video or television ad from Lockheed Martin featuring the F-35 with the American flag waving in the background, remember that there is a little more red in their red, white and blue fighter than Lockheed would like to admit!

A Pole  posted on  2017-03-13   15:48:11 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: A Pole (#0)

The number of scientists and engineers retiring at the Air Force’s top science research agency has doubled in the last five years, and defense experts say the trend could lead to a shortage because a growing number of highly trained workers are eligible to leave.

This could have easily been anticipated and controlled with proper personnel planning to streamline the pipeline inflow with new scientists and engineers each year….even if forced early retirement were necessary to keep the balance. That has been done.

But then when can anyone expect proper planning by government employees after considering the following ..

Of the roughly $2 million that federal workers from 14 agencies spent on presidential politics by the end of September, about $1.9 million, or 95 percent, went to the Democratic nominee’s campaign, according to an analysis by The Hill.

Which proves they are not too bright.

We are talking about Civil Service Personnel Planning Department being just as stupid as libertarians.

Well maybe almost….it’s hard to think of anyone being as stupid as a libertarian.

Gatlin  posted on  2017-03-13   17:39:54 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: A Pole (#0)

Few Americans are studying science or engineering these days because it is hard

Students are brainwashed and taking courses in social activism that lead to careers in politics and law rather than science and engineering. We are producing generations that know how to run their mouth, but not much of anything else. Subversion is the new favored curriculum.

rlk  posted on  2017-03-13   18:20:15 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: A Pole (#1) (Edited)

Few Americans are studying science or engineering these days because it is hard

and the F35 is the result of this

paraclete  posted on  2017-03-13   18:38:42 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: A Pole (#0)

Few Americans are studying science or engineering these days because it is hard

Effin' Jorge Dubya Arbusto did everything in his power to dumb-down, downsize & outsource development of this technological expertise to India & China while immersing our own students in Pokemon stupidity...
As far as I'm concerned, the damage is irreparable... the GOP can go hang themselves...

Willie Green  posted on  2017-03-14   10:02:06 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Willie Green (#5)

Willie still has his mouth attached to Obama's faggoty ass.

A K A Stone  posted on  2017-03-14   10:19:12 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: A K A Stone (#6)

Does posting that adolescent horsecrap make you feel "manly"?

Willie Green  posted on  2017-03-14   12:11:26 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#8. To: Willie Green (#7)

Does posting that adolescent horsecrap make you feel "manly"?

It is how I picture you. I mean you are such an idiot. You like Obaka who is for murdering kids. He is letting foreigners invade us. But you don't give a shit as long as you get your government cheese.

You don't give a shit if Americans are put out of work by a bunch of wetbacks.

You think people that earn money should just give it up to some invaders. Well screw you willie you and Obama and all you little piece of shit democrats.

Willie that is what you are a piece of shit. Why you ask. Because you have the heart of a murderer and a thief.

You support taking sharp objects and cutting little babies to pieces. Frankly WIllie anyone who supports that should themselves be cut into little pieces.

You lie and claim you are a christian. But we all know you aren't because you champion the murder of American children. You support the murder of innocent Americans by illegal alien scumbags.

Do you have a wife WIllie. Because if she is a normal woman she would think you are a disgusting pukish little willie weiner

There is repentance Willie. Ask God for forgiveness for voting for murdereres and rapists. Then he will forgive you if you are genuine. Then you would have a chance to redeem yourself.

I don't hate you Willie. I just like making fun of you because you are so dumb.

A K A Stone  posted on  2017-03-14   12:17:47 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#9. To: Willie Green (#7)

Does posting that adolescent horsecrap make you feel "manly"?

Apparently so.

Fred Mertz  posted on  2017-03-14   12:23:36 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#10. To: A K A Stone (#8)

You're a pea-brain, Stone...
You have absolutely no idea where I stand on issues...
All you know is that I don't like Trump so you automaticly ASSUME you know-it-all and go off on a tirade based on hallucinatory alternative facts..

You stupid twit... You're not even smart enough to figure out that, although I agree with much of what Trump says, I simply don't believe him because he's a goddam conartist who's gonna screw you over anyway...

So go ahead and pray to whoever you want to pray to...
Praying obviously hasn't done YOU any good...
I don't know why you'd expect that superstitious mumbo-jumbo would work on me...

Willie Green  posted on  2017-03-14   12:38:03 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#11. To: Willie Green, buckeroo (#10)

Be careful, Say Hey Willie.

Pebbles might ban you and further reduce traffic here by 25%.

Where's bucky?

Fred Mertz  posted on  2017-03-14   12:40:20 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#12. To: Fred Mertz (#11)

Where's bucky?

Heck, I don't know...
Last time I checked, I think I had him on bozo next to boris & Mud...

Willie Green  posted on  2017-03-14   12:44:14 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#13. To: Willie Green (#10)

You have absolutely no idea where I stand on issues...

Yes I do by your vote.

You vote for baby mass killer Hillary and Obama and Clinton.

So you are pro baby murder.

You vote for open borders lets kill our own kids and let foreigners take their places I hate white people anyway Hillary the cunt. So you hate Americas borders and people and prefer wetbacks.

Hillary the cunt and cunt eater wanted to replace American workers with foreigners. She wanted to let foreingers come here to build roads and do our peoples trade work. So you also hate the American worker. Thankfully Trump killed TPP. Hillary who you love was all in for TPP.

Bush cut taxes. You want Americans poor so you hate Bush too. Bush did suck but not for the reasons in your dark heart.

Willie if you look in the mirror you will see an evil person.

A K A Stone  posted on  2017-03-14   12:44:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#14. To: Willie Green (#10)

I don't know why you'd expect that superstitious mumbo-jumbo would work on me...

So you lied when you said you were a christian. Figures. Typical leftist.

A K A Stone  posted on  2017-03-14   12:48:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#15. To: A K A Stone (#13)

YOU are the baby killer...

Trump's healthcare cutbacks & increased environmental pollution will result in more infant deaths, disease and deformities than anything Obama or Clinton ever did.

And not just babies, but old people too...
Under Rick Perry's guidance, Trump is gonna pump CANCER & POISON into the environment and TrumpCare will terminate insurance for 24 million people who'll get sick & DIE because they can't afford healthcare.

Willie Green  posted on  2017-03-14   13:11:31 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#16. To: A K A Stone (#14)

So you lied when you said you were a christian. Figures.

No... I believed it when I said it...

YOU'RE the one who changed my mind & convinced me that it was a superstitious pile of crap...

So congratulations for being such a fine role model!

Willie Green  posted on  2017-03-14   13:15:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#17. To: rlk (#3)

Students are brainwashed and taking courses in social activism that lead to careers in politics and law rather than science and engineering.

Actually, students are taking lots of courses in business. Business is a very popular major.

And for the record, scientists and engineers work FOR businessmen.

Law is harder than engineering. I've done both. Sure, to just get a law degree is not as hard as getting an engineering degree. But all law degrees are not created equal. To get into a top law school - which you have to do to be able to make a good living at law - is very hard.

Once you're out of engineering school, there are all sorts of jobs for you. Out of law school, your first job depends on where you went, but actually succeeding in law practice is a bitch, because another intelligent person is always working directly against you. Law is a combat sport. Engineering is not.

Learning engineering is harder at the beginning (although actually learning to write VERY WELL is more difficult than learning to do mathematics very well. Starting writing is easy - everybody knows how to speak his own language, but then progressing to truly superior writing is quite hard, in part because what qualifies as "superior" in writing is quite subjective).

Should kids study engineering and science instead of business? I'll leave that up to you to decide.

But law is its own subject, and to be a top-tier lawyer and stay there is harder than to be an engineer.

Vicomte13  posted on  2017-03-15   10:51:21 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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