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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One problem I've seen with a subset of MITRE folks - they spent many years doing very highly specialized work. And they became true experts at it, hard workers, good resources for that work. But the work was so specialized that it isn't performed broadly outside of very tiny areas of the government, I'm talking single units of 10-15 people. And, other more general skill sets suffered. So now if they have to go looking for a new job, they're kind of screwed. [/quote]

That's happening all through government. And the second-order effects are, who would be willing to specialize that again?[/quote]

Exactly.

[b]These people are gems[/b]. Their loss is /will be difficult to quantify but at some point something will break or not be developed correctly and people will look around and wonder where things went wrong.[/quote]

The country was served by these gems for decades and the US will feel their loss for a longtime[/quote]

Not at all clear the gems are being lost.

Many merely are (or will be) shifting laterally to a different employer, while doing the same work for the same part of the government. [/quote]A number of them are mid-to-late boomers and are hanging it up rather than sticking around to train the next generation.[/quote]

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