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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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3 Summary of Keynote Talks
Pages 7-11

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... He observed that the United States has a science and engineering workforce problem but primarily an engineering workforce problem: roughly 13 percent of university graduates in the United States have degrees in the natural sciences and only about 4.5 percent have degrees in engineering. Vest underscored that this is a problem: compared with the respective percentages for China and other countries, this is lower.
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From page 8...
... He pointed out that, whereas in the past there was the problem of brain drain to (versus from) the United States, this flow has been altered so that what we have now is "brain circulation" as economies heat up in Asia and Brazil.
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... , for example, has moved most of its research overseas. Four of the top-10 patenting companies are overseas, and the United States has lost its position in test scores.
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... The latter, however, become ensnared in export controls that constrain anything that passes through the United States, and this has led companies to simply bypass this country. Augustine asked if it would not be possible to change the rules to accommodate this aspect of globalization in a DOD framework.
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... Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military Departments; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics; Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; Directors of the Defense Agencies: Science and Technology (S&T) Priorities for Fiscal Years 2013-2017 Planning.
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