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Re Hearing in Boston on conscription of cyber/IT and STEM workers
From: "Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 7 May 2018 10:00:34 -0400
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From: L Jean Camp <ljeanc () gmail com> Date: May 7, 2018 at 9:51:10 AM EDT To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com> Subject: Re: [IP] Hearing in Boston on conscription of cyber/IT and STEM workers Reply-To: ljeanc () gmail com This would be a great way to reduce American students in STEM program even more. In fact, this is not just stupid. This is shameful. The NSF Scholarship for Service requires a year of public service for each year of scholarship. They funded ZERO new scholarships last year, The years the SFS scholarship is funded the highly rated and worthy of funding proposals are usually funded at 25% -30%. These funds go directly to the students, who then have to find internships in the public sector, and then work in the public sector for one year for each year of scholarship. The NSA Information Assurance scholarship program stopped accepting new students in I think 2008. This is for American students who have a 3.5 or better in a nationally certified computer security degree program. These students must be willing to go through a clearance process, spend internships in intelligence or military, and work one year in intelligence or military for each year supported by the scholarship. Americans are desperate for support to enter security careers. The DoD spends more on pencils than security scholarships. The funds to fully support every qualified students in these programs would be minuscule budget dust for the Department of Defense. It would probably not even require a few more sedans and fewer luxury SUVs in the motor pool. It would be so small as to be a tiny footnote in the NDAA. These would support the infrastructure, help Americans, and are an all round social good. To place more demands on a generation that is staggering under student debt, will have to pay off the lavish tax cuts we have voted ourselves since Reagan, and pay for this wars while simultaneously refusing to invest a dime in scholarships is simply shameful. To be factually crystal clear, the proposal here is to continue to refuse to support scholarships and then conscripting people who had to work their way through because there is no DoD priority more disposable than cybersecurity scholarships, as you can see by the zero budget for IAS in the NDAA.On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote: Begin forwarded message:From: "Edward Hasbrouck" <edward () hasbrouck org> Date: May 7, 2018 at 8:45:07 AM EDT To: dave () farber net Subject: Hearing in Boston on conscription of cyber/IT and STEM workers A "National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service" is currently holding hearings throughout the US on the future of the draft, draft registration, Selective Service, and compulsory service. The Commission has been directed to report and make recommendations to Congress and the President on, among other issues, "the feasibility... of modifying the military selective service process in order to obtain for military, national, and public service individuals with skills (such as medical, dental, and nursing skills, language skills, cyber skills, and science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills) for which the Nation has a critical need, without regard to age or sex." The Commission's next hearing is this Wednesday, May 9th, at Suffolk University in Boston. It isn't necessary to sign up in advance to testify. Background on the National Commission and these hearings: https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002321.html Official commission notice of the hearing in Boston: http://inspire2serve.gov/news-events/please-join-us-our-public-forum-boston-massachusetts Other upcoming Commission hearings:: http://inspire2serve.gov/news-events Most of the Commission's official publicity has been about promoting volunteerism, so people who haven't read closely might not have realized that their mandate is to study compulsory military and national service. Peace, Edward Hasbrouck -------------------- Draft Registration and Draft Resistance: http://www.resisters.info Health Care Workers and the Draft: http://www.MedicalDraft.info Edward Hasbrouck edward () hasbrouck org http://hasbrouck.org +1-415-824-0214-- Prof. L. Jean Camp http://www.ljean.com Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/L_Camp DBLP: http://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/c/Camp:L=_Jean SSRN: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=262477 Scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=wJPGa2IAAAAJ Make a Difference http://www.ieeeusa.org/policy/govfel/congfel.asp This message was sent to the list address and trashed, but can be found online.
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