Engineering News by You :: Pentagon battles a brain drain

Login to EngCom

News Categories

Engineering Drawingboard [Home]Business and Financial Chemical & Process Civil and Structural CMMS Design and CAD Did You Know Electrical & Process Control Environmental and Life Cycle Health & Safety Manufacturing/Production Mechanical Mining, Oil & Gas Military and Defence Process Improvement Transport Warehousing & Distribution Ryan's Ramblings

Syndicate

Save This Page

Interesting engineering news and general interest to get you through the week.

The Drawing Board - Engineering News with Attitude
- Be Inspired -

Pentagon battles a brain drain

Clipped to the Drawing Board by John William

In the past 10 years or so, as spending on new military projects has reached its highest level since the Reagan years, the Pentagon has increasingly been losing the people most skilled at managing those projects.
When Paul Kaminski completed his graduate work in 1971 with degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University, he started building advanced airplanes for the Air Force. By the time he stopped several decades later, he had played a pivotal role in producing a flock of new weapons, including radar-evading stealth aircraft.

Start a conversation

Add New

RSS

Saturday 28 June, 2008 04:58 AM

< Prev		Next >

[ Back ]

Midweek Trivia

Get this weeks Midweek Trivia!!

(1^st October)

and challenge your workmates.

Find out who knows the most useless trivia.

Others in this Category

Iconic warplane takes to the skies A chance to design the future DARPA Engineering New “Home Invasion” Technologies India Begins First Mission to Map Moon's Surface NASA and Engineering Integrity

Your Ad Here

"A good scientist is a person with original ideas. A good engineer is a person who makes a design that works with as few original ideas as possible" - Freeman Dyson