Since graduating from college with a EE degree, I've worked for 3 employers, all of which had or have very deep roots in the intel community. At my current firm

Since graduating from college with a EE degree, I've worked for 3 employers, all of which had or have very deep roots in the intel community. At my current firm, we've always had success by a large investment in new technology under IRaD. As one of our founders has said, we provide solutions to problems that our customers don't yet know they have. Payscales for engineers is consistent with commercial companies here in Silicon Valley. In my 40+ year career, I can honestly say that I've never sacrificed personal success for this job and the work that I've done has contributed, in a hugely important way, with our ability to collect and analyze data from the "bad guys". I have absolutely no regrets for my career path.