U.S. Space Defense Faces a Startling Weakness America May Not Have the Workers to Rebuild After a War
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A new RAND report is raising a serious warning about America’s ability to recover from a major conflict with China or Russia: the United States may not have enough engineers, technicians, assemblers and highly specialized experts to rapidly rebuild military space capabilities after satellites and other systems are destroyed. This original podcast script examines the hidden workforce crisis inside the U.S. space industrial base, the enormous gaps in skilled labor, the challenge of security clearances, the years required to develop specialized expertise, and why simply ordering…
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