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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I graduated from an Ivy 20 years ago and I’m a career SES in the federal government. I look at my contacts who work at Raytheon, Honeywell, or any of the other big defense contractors with a lot of envy. I have 2 college classmates who worked for defense contractors and it has been extremely lucrative for them. If that’s his interest he should go for it.[/quote]

We are the same age and similar career path. I wanted to work at NASA but then my program got cut and I ended up at NRL; so a similar trajectory.

Pay at top tier defense contractors can be great especially if you are in business development/sales.  For actual engineers it’s kind of ho hum.

For your son, he should look at interning at RAND and CNA corp, and maybe Palantir. Economics is a lot of big data munging so NSA is a real option too. MITRE, APL, Aerospace are all good prestige places.

For more business side of contracting, I would start with Lockheed and NG, Parsons, GD, Raytheon; Boeing was good but the recent crisis on aviation side of house gives me pause. L3Harris and bae systems.  I think anything else would be a bad deal and be more Beltway bandit than top shelf defense.

Can also look at Amazon and Microsoft which have huge contracts with JEDI and similar cloud offerings. Some of the computation resources should be familiar to him in economics. [/quote]

Thank you.[/quote]

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