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Defense Focus: Spy sat lessons -- Part 3
Why is the U.S. defense industry sector having such difficulty with producing so many ambitious programs like the Littoral Combat Ship, the Space-Based Infrared System, and the Future Image Architecture program on budget and within reasonable time, compared with its triumphs of a generation ago? One major reason is that early triumphant programs were created by an earlier generation.Read this article that vindicates what myself and other displaced workers have been saying in all fields! Let's say it. The out-sourcing, demands of venture caps and current management theory have been a Fifth Column to the United States! [...] One major problem almost never directly addressed is a process that has now been observed in the aerospace field for at least 35 years -- the loss of experienced veterans on a huge scale before they could pass on most of their experience and expertise to qualified successors. The shrinkage of the U.S. aerospace workforce to one-seventh of what it was a quarter-century ago when President Ronald Reagan took office has been the main general factor in this process. But it has been intensified and made far worse by the bias toward having academic qualifications for senior management in the industrial workplace and by the accompanying bias against having older managers in their 40s and 50s, or even in their 60s. Posted by: 3dc 2007-11-24 |
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