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DoD Looking ‘Specifically’ At Retaining Key Industry Talent, Lambert Says

Friday, June 14th, 2013

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The Defense Department is looking “very specifically” at slowing the exodus of key talent from the aerospace industrial base, according to DoD’s senior industrial policy official. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manufacturing and Industrial Base Policy Brett Lambert said yesterday the Pentagon’s “single greatest challenge” is drawing young, talented engineers to aerospace and defense to counter an exodus of older, experienced employees due to retirement or budget instability. “Most of the senior engineers we have that came into this…

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