Report Urges More 'Skunk Works' To Bolster DOO STEM Workforce

摘要

Creating more unconventional "skunk works" programs in the defense industrial base, universities and the Defense Department could help reverse the shortage of high-tech experts in cybersecurity and key intelligence fields in DOD's workforce, according to a draft report by the National Academies. The report is part of an 18-month study to determine the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) capabilities that the Pentagon will need in the future and to recommend ways DOD could meet those needs. A final report is expected in early 2013, but an interim version was released in order to help Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering Zachary Lemnios plan for the fiscal year 2014 budget process, the document states.