Review of the Future of the U.S. Aerospace Infrastructure and Aerospace Engineering Disciplines to Meet the Needs of the Air Force and the Department of Defense (2001) / Chapter Skim
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3. Work Force Issues
3. Work Force Issues
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INDUSTRIAL TALENT BASE The committee's concerns about prospects for a talented, well-educated, highly motivated, and appropriately experienced defense aerospace science and engineering work force were based on four factors (LMAC, 2000; LMSS, 2000; Kennedy and Lorell, 2000; Shelton, 2000~. First, recent reductions in defense projects combined with reductions in hiring have changed the age-experience composition of the defense aerospace work force.
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Nevertheless, experience is lost, as is efficiency, when work tasks involve significant learning curves. For example, since 1982 when
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20001. Historical experiences at the two airplane manufacturing companies of the Lockheed Corporation, the Lockheed California Company and the Lockheed Georgia Company, revealed a need for measuring experience by work association.
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Level of Program Opportunity Opportunities for innovative design work that could attract new engineers and ensure broad program experience may be provided by technologies outside of the traditional defense platform programs. Based on the committee's cursory survey of acquisition programs, between 2000 and 2017, 10 of the top 20 DoD acquisition programs will be aerospace programs, including JSF, the F-22, the F/A-18E/F, a new bomber (the Future Strike Aircraft, or FSA)
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Future Concepts Emerging Growth Mature Declining UCAV JSF C-17 F-15 B-1 Common support aircraft Comanche F/A-18E/F T-45 B-2 Advanced theater transport KC-767 F-22 AV-8B B-52 Blended-wing-body F/A-18G V-22 Apache F/A-18 C/D Canard rotorwing JDAM CH-47 Hellfire Affordable rapid response Brimstone AGM-130 missile demonstrator C-40 CALCM SLAM-ER C-32 NOTE: UCAV, unmanned combat air vehicle; JSF, Joint Strike Fighter; JDAM, joint direct attack munition; AGM, air to ground missile; CALCM, conventional air launched cruise missile; and SLAM-ER, standoff land attack missileexpanded response. SOURCE: Boeing, 2000a.
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However, to attract new technical personnel, the Air Force may have to offer hiring incentives to narrow the gap between government and industry offerings (NRC, 2001~. The two JSF prototype design teams at Lockheed Martin and Boeing involve people with critical skills that are easily transferable to the commercial sector, such as computational fluid dynamics, thermodynamics, and avionics and systems engineering, who are constantly being recruited.
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Today, however, the defense aerospace sector is less attractive to engineering graduates for several reasons: financial rewards are lower than those offered by small, hightechnology, rapid-growth commercial companies, especially in telecommunications, e-commerce, and biotechnology (although this may be changing) ; downsizing and continuing mergers and acquisitions have resulted in layoffs, reorganizations, and turmoil in the workplace; and because of the oppressive and intrusive oversight of defense programs, they do not provide as much opportunity for creativity and innovation as private companies.
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Compton, Public Affairs, Air Force Materiel Command, February 22,2001) and 45 percent of its military technical work force since 1994 (personal communication, K
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The committee did not devote significant time to addressing the status of military technical personnel; however, DoD's policy of assigning uniformed personnel to S&T activities, both in laboratories and in technical oversight positions, is considered valuable to the overall attainment of service goals. A significant source of Air Force officers with advanced technical degrees is the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT)
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The people who remain in government laboratories 25 are spending more of their time as contract monitors than as researchers. Under existing rules and in the present business climate, the government has difficulty maintaining a highly qualified technical work force, except in a few instances where progressive personnel programs have been allowed on a pilot basis.
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