Report of a Workshop on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Workforce Needs for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Defense Industrial Base (2012) / Chapter Skim
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Augustine noted, for example, that the United States has 14,000 independent school districts, which by its sheer number presents an enormous challenge to DOD. He suggested that DOD focus on the unique things that it might do -- for example, providing summer employment in its laboratories to young people who might be enticed into returning later -- a tool often used in industry, and which affords the laboratories an opportunity to identify high-quality candidates for future employment.
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This points to a need for a workforce composed of people who are current in their fields and maintain their expertise throughout their careers so that they can change course rapidly; it will not be possible to wait 10 or 20 years to produce a new graduate with a bachelor's degree in engineering. Augustine further noted that we could enlarge the pool by including foreign applicants, and we could also benefit by reducing the number of items requiring clearances and by making the field of engineering more attractive.
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, whose meetings technically coincide with DOD's interests, holds 90 percent of its international conferences outside the United States. PANEL SESSION MODERATOR SUMMARIES The moderators of the panel sessions next offered their summaries.
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Panel 3, on Limitations to Meeting Workforce Needs of DOD and the Industrial Base Sharon Levin, session moderator, noted that the speakers and panelists presented and discussed data on profi ciency in mathematics, science, and reading and showed that this has not declined in the United States. There is, however, attrition in the numbers who are in the STEM pipeline as they progress through high school and college and make career choices.
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Referring to the remarks by Katrina McFarland, Defense Acquisition University, Oliver suggested that, whether we have a crisis or not, having heard the president of the Defense Acquisition University calling her workforce of 147,000 mediocre, we can say that we have an issue. Wesley Harris gave a case study on corrosion and the shortage of 1 million workers, reinforcing a point made in the session of Panel 1 by Lyle Schwartz and underscoring the importance of not overlooking traditional basic disciplines.
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He also discussed the requirement for citizenship and the pressures that this places on the workforce supply; the globalization of science and technology; and what options there are to mitigate the tension between the two. Hermann also culled points made in the question-and-answer period, including the importance of the technician workforce and the constraints imposed by conflict-of-interest rules on the workforce moving between DOD and defense contractors -- a point made by Norman Augustine from his own experience moving from the Department of the Army.
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