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The fact is: you can't wave a magic wand, and suddenly crap out a person with high-level experience in these very young tools, who also happens to have officer-
by Pokepokalypse 5y ago
The fact is: you can't wave a magic wand, and suddenly crap out a person with high-level experience in these very young tools, who also happens to have officer-level rank in the USAF (or at the very least: experience with satisfying the operational and compliance requirements in this industry). I have no doubt such people exist. But not in the numbers that would be needed. It will take years or decades of focused effort to build that workforce.
- mpyne 5y agoExactly right, but the military services haven't even started to implement the changes that would be needed to grow and maintain a cadre of digital talent. Fred Brooks (a name some of you might recognize) recommended in a 1987 report for Defense Science Board on problems with DoD software that DoD needed to improve its uniformed and government software expertise. Even there he said such personnel would likely have to be heavily supplemented by contractor help -- but at least they'd know how to do the technical management. Fast forward 30+ years and there are pockets of talent but if anything the problems are larger as digital products have become more important to business operations around the world. Recent example from Reddit on DoD IT: https://i.redd.it/dyp2nyaca5l71.jpg https://i.redd.it/dyp2nyaca5l71.jpg
- tyingq 5y agoNo, but they aren't even trying. They treat it as a generalist post. There are scholarships for pilots, nuclear engineers, and so on that place them in specific jobs in the military. That's something they could start now for IT.