First of all, thank you for your insight into the F/A-18. >We need some sort of '5 year hiatus I was under the impression that it was already illegal whenever

First of all, thank you for your insight into the F/A-18. >We need some sort of '5 year hiatus I was under the impression that it was already illegal whenever a conflict of interest exists, and that the laws were simply being ignored. Before I started my current position, I spent a couple of years as a defense contractor doing entry and intermediate level IT work. Whenever I applied for a job, as a low level employee, I had to fill out questionnaires that asked dozens of questions about whether or not I had been a senior leader in a government organization that could have impacted the decision making process for government contracts. I assumed that these questions were designed to filter out any applicants that might present a conflict of interest, but I frequently hear stories about Colonels and Generals jumping right into executive positions at the same companies they negotiated government contracts with just a few months earlier. IMO, the people who are doing this AND the people who are knowingly hiring them should end up in federal prison.