By Gautham Nagesh
September 5, 2008
The dearth of Americans being trained in science and technology is probably one of the greatest threats to the military's future, several Pentagon information technology officials said during a luncheon on Friday.
Comment on this article in The Forum."If we're not sweating bullets about the education problem, we're all in the wrong framework," David Tillotson, deputy chief information officer for the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, told an audience of IT industry professionals at the Armed Forces Communication and Electronics Association event.
Tillotson and other officials said they were concerned that U.S. high schools and colleges are not turning out enough engineers to help fill the military's next-generation needs. The issue is critical enough that Deputy Secretary of Defense Gordon England recently raised it a high-level meeting of Pentagon officials, Tillotson said.
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