In March, WESCAM, an Ontario-based imaging systems company, announced plans to invest $2 million in a collaboration with Canadian universities to help train a future security and defense technology workforce.
Aircraft engine manufacturing accounts for nearly 75% of Ohio's aerospace and defense industry workforce.
GOP leadership moved over the summer to swap the more than $500 billion in defense cuts with savings from the federal workforce and reduced spending on the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, better known as food stamps, among other things.
Google, Facebook, and most Internet titans are fueled by government projects: the Internet began in a defense department lab, public universities educate a skilled workforce and environmental policies benefit high tech green industries.
DOD convened the impressively named Committee on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Workforce Needs for the U.S. Department of Defense and the U.S. Defense Industrial Base to address what DOD itself perceives as difficulty attracting high-caliber talent for its defense-related research and development projects.
The most effective defense is to link practice of skills in the workforce as closely as possible to the context in which they were learned.
The service sector, including public administration and defense, accounts for some one-fourth of GDP and employs more than half of the workforce.
He's saying that in 2050, spending on defense, on food stamps, on infrastructure, on education, on research and development, on the federal workforce, and everything other non-entitlement program combined will be less than four percentage points of GDP.
Nearly 75% of the state's aerospace and defense employees work in the aircraft engine manufacturing sub-sector; only Connecticut has larger aircraft engine workforce.
Services, including public administration and defense, account for roughly one-fifth of the value of GDP and employ some two-fifths of the workforce.
