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Jared Serbu, DoD Reporter, Federal News Radio

The Defense Department is worried about an impending shortage of engineers across a lot of its technical professions. But when it comes to its acquisition progr...

Federal News Network Staff

May 8, 2015 4:03 pm

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The Defense Department is worried about an impending shortage of engineers across a lot of its technical professions. But when it comes to its acquisition programs, the shortage is already here. As Federal News Radio’s Jared Serbu reports, the Pentagon’s top science official says too few of the department’s program managers have engineering programs, and it’s one reason programs fail.