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24th April 2023

Post reblogged from look, okay, these things happen sometimes with 46 notes

andmaybegayer:

Every now and again LinkedIn will be like hey here’s some engineering jobs and I’ll scroll through it, how is it possible that even tiny towns in nowhere USA have companies that do military work. Like surely at some point you’ve got to have engineering companies that do not require their staff to have security clearance, this seems excessive. I swear I saw a family owned naval hull manufacturing company the last time I was on there.

Military contracting gets widely scattered so that each program might shore up its budgetary support by creating jobs in as many Congressional districts in search of an industrial base as possible.

  1. maxli-catenby reblogged this from andmaybegayer
  2. zvaigzdelasas said: #1 industry in small towns & all those small(er) town senators & congressors whole shtick is to secure weapons mfg contracts for their constituents. Even Bernie has said the f35 is a great jobs program for vermontians
  3. kindfulkirby reblogged this from andmaybegayer
  4. hedgehog1029 said: most small american towns are basically settlements around the local raytheon plant
  5. alberto-balsalm said: The US federal government gives preferential treatment to veteran- and women-owned (as well as other protected classes) small businesses in the contract bid process, so you see a lot of small-scale defense contractors intentionally organized so that, at least on paper, a veteran and his wife own it. And the feds generally define “small business” as smaller than 500 employees.
  6. n1et reblogged this from andmaybegayer
  7. kontextmaschine reblogged this from andmaybegayer and added:
    Military contracting gets widely scattered so that each program might shore up its budgetary support by creating jobs in...
  8. garmbreak1 reblogged this from shieldfoss and added:
    🐖 🛢️ baybeeeeeeeeeeeee
  9. shieldfoss reblogged this from inferentialdistance and added:
    Oh I’m aware. It’s still annoying.
  10. ghostpalmtechnique reblogged this from shieldfoss and added:
    The relevant context here is that government spending bills in the US (historically, with a brief sort-of pause during...
  11. inferentialdistance reblogged this from shieldfoss and added:
    That’s for tax and compliance reasons: they don’t want to deal with 194 additional regulatory regimes.
  12. vren-diagram said: Unrelated but related to eng in the US: there’s some general consensus among engineers I’ve worked with that ITAR requirements are too far reaching and broad. And this leads to lots of otherwise interesting places to work having a ‘no real windows’ policy. For export security reasons. Place I worked at that designed industrial laser cutting rigs had no relation to the DoD and was owned by a foreign corp but still fell under these restrictions.
  13. vren-diagram said: Defense contracts are sometimes parceled out to districts to secure a representative’s vote. The big defense manufacturers are sometimes strategic about where they do production so that some chunk of a critical district’s population rely on the DoD for jobs, and would be angry at their rep for trying to cut DoD spending.
  14. andmaybegayer posted this
    Every now and again LinkedIn will be like hey here's some engineering jobs and I'll scroll through it, how is it...