There are still people who do not know that the military services employ civilians. It came as welcome news to many of the 300 Hispanic teens attending the Viva Technology Day, co-sponsored by DOD and the Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards Corp., in Anaheim, Calif. Air Force Col. James J. Campbell, with the Pentagon’s personnel and readiness office, talked, in particular, about USAF’s civilian scientists and engineers.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
