Defense contracting can be intimidating to get into, for sure. Like most professions, it's a universe unto itself, and there are meetups in larger cities around

Defense contracting can be intimidating to get into, for sure. Like most professions, it's a universe unto itself, and there are meetups in larger cities around the topics (aerospace, for example) to make friends in the industry. As for the work itself, if you're interested in going into defense contracting, some online courses may be freely available to you at Defense Acquisition University, which educates on a lot of the policy and bureaucracy (hope you like acronyms).