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Then why does Lockheed have hundreds of people involved with writing and testing avionics software for this aircraft? Why does Northrop Grumman have hundreds of
by engi_nerd 11y ago
Then why does Lockheed have hundreds of people involved with writing and testing avionics software for this aircraft? Why does Northrop Grumman have hundreds of engineers working on avionics hardware? Why does Lockheed Martin have an entire B737 that it heavily customized to test all of this hardware and software? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_CATBird https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_CATBird
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoYou have a wooden head.
- engi_nerd 11y ago...No need to be insulting and condescending. I understand that you were making a joke. But the fact is, your joke example was poorly chosen.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoI can see your point. However a problem we really do have is that we have lost our expertise. The COTS mandate lead to less demand for the kinds of engineers who could have prevented this breach. My friend Murray Sims is a naval civil service coder. He rang me up once to beg me to work for the navy: "People are dying because of software bugs." Id love to but I get a little loopy sometimes so have no hope of getting a clearance, instead I write technical articles. http://www.warplife.com/tips/ http://www.warplife.com/tips/
- engi_nerd 11y agoI admit I was a little saddened to be insulted by someone whose work I admire. Your friend definitely has a point. People are dying because of software bugs. And process bugs. And outdated hardware. I agree with you that we have lost our expertise. I think the defense industry in general has a demographics problem. There's a lot of old guys who are about to retire. A lot of young, inexperienced people. And not enough of the mid-career engineers.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoI offer my heartfelt and humble apology for insulting you. That was not my intention though I do understand why you took it that way. I intended to insult the United States Congress.
- irishcoffee 11y agoA well-met insult. The government is putting itself into a corner with their current policies on hiring criteria. If you have an idea on how to change that, I'd support you however I could. If it matters, I really admire your apology, not many people have the "balls/vagina/both/neither" to admit, at the very least, a mis-interpretation of a comment.
- engi_nerd 11y agoTheir hiring criteria are ridiculous. Every job I have ever applied for through USAJobs and other government systems (NASA STARS, US Navy CHART, and several others I cannot remember the names of at the moment) has resulted in a rejected application. NASA's system told me that I was not qualified to work on rocket telemetry systems, even though I was then working as a telemetry engineer for the prime contractor on the NSROC II sounding rocket contract. The Navy's system told me that I was not qualified to work on aircraft instrumentation and telemetry systems for NAVAIR, even though one of my past jobs was as an aircraft instrumentation and telemetry systems engineer for NAVAIR. My wife has similar anecdotal experiences. She applied for a job with the federal government requiring experience as a K-12 biology teacher. She was rejected even though she worked as a high school biology teacher for almost a decade and won several national awards and two educational fellowships.
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoI have lots of ideas as to how to change that; the problem is not unique to the government. Real Soon anow http://wew.warplife.com/jobs/ http://wew.warplife.com/jobs/ will redirect to a domain that my brother in law will register for me because my reputation for speaking my mind has made me completely unemployable.
- comrade1 11y agoHumor is not allowed on HN. It's for our own protection - most of the people here are so autistic a simple ironic statement could lead to the end of the internet as the HN readers spaz out all at once.