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Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by wlesieutre »

avar wrote: post #53
chrisco255 wrote: post #45

Basic Qualifications: • Bachelor's degree in Engineering, Computer Science or related technical focus. • Experience in COMM and Navigation. • Avionics experience • Experience with aircraft operations. • Microsoft Office I love the MS Office req at the end. "Yes, we see you've got a BS in engineering, you're an expert at avionics and COMM control systems, but do you know anything about MS Word?"

More like: "We ended up hiring the guy most competent at MS Word at the expense of everything else, because out of the five requirements it was the only one the managers doing the interview knew anything about". "Johnson! We're promoting you to head technical flight operations. We can't believe the level of your MS Word skills!" "Senator, we have no idea why the F-22 inexplicably crashed. That software was designed b…

They're also concerned about your PowerPoint skills

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/ywq5zy/the-pentagon-has-t...

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by uxp100 »

adrianN wrote: post #65
xelxebar wrote: post #62

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'll bite. What is DOORS and how can I specialize in it to put my skills in high demand?

DOORS the standard tool for requirements management that combines the worst technologies IBM has to offer in order to provide you with a way of entering hypertext into a database. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOORS

Is this similar to Jama?

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by throw0101a »

anyfoo wrote: post #23
butteroverflow wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess storing all those 1's also adds some weight. It costs on the order of antimatter if you think of it. What's it like, $50 million per 1 billionth of a gram, or so?

The only storage medium I can spontaneously think of where 1s are heavier than 0s is punch cards. I hope that is not the current primary storage method in the aerospace industry.

> punch cards

Is hanging chad a 0 or a 1?

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by jki275 »

dvdbloc wrote: post #56

So a couple of the comments here have been mentioning the high pay of people with specialties like this in the context of LM and other defense contractors. My impression from Glassdoor and general conversation with software developers has been the DCs pay pretty low for software in general compared to FAANG or even other engineering companies. Is it true that people with obscure specialties at places like LM can comm…

Defense contractors don't pay FAANG salaries. They can't, in general, because they're bound by labor categories and salaries set by the government, and the government isn't paying software engineers above what their GS software engineers get (max of about 128k in the DC area in general, if you're curious). There are a few jobs that can go a bit higher, but even they are capped around 150k as I recall.

I don't know what LM is going to pay for the skillset they ask for in that job announcement, I would bet that it's 150k or less, but the person w/ the skillset to answer it may be able to command a bit more as there aren't very many of us left.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by jki275 »

ch_123 wrote: post #64

ISTR that the avionics code is written in Ada, and runs on top of Intel i960 processors, and that the Ada compiler for that target only runs on VAX/VMS (not even OpenVMS, but specifically VMS on the VAX).

They're moving rapidly away from ADA, as the mandate to use it has been rescinded. C++ 11 is the new standard.

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Post by TheOtherHobbes »

oldsklgdfth wrote: post #118

I had a job maintaining fortran code on an openVMS OS running on itanium hardware. Itanium was intel's failed attempt at a 64bit architecture and that's the platform VMS decided to port to. That made hardware expensive and as of recently obsolete (i think hp discontinued that integrity line of servers) VMS doesn't natively support TCP/IP, because it predates it. The VMS communication protocol was called decnet. So yo…

VMS had some really nice features - mostly forgotten now that it's all 'nix, all the time.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by devonkim »

akiselev wrote: post #112
adrianN wrote: post #67

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The sensible way to deal with bit flips is a gratuitous amount of ECC.

ECC doesn't help when you have an EMP caused by an atmospheric nuclear detonation. Those are the kinds of things the design has to consider.

Makes me why we don’t count NASA under DoD similar to DARPA to help with their funding.

Re: Lockheed has an opening for engineers with VAX experience for the F22

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Post by mrob »

sgillen wrote: post #30
anyfoo wrote: post #23

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The only storage medium I can spontaneously think of where 1s are heavier than 0s is punch cards. I hope that is not the current primary storage method in the aerospace industry.

Well... technically most hard drives should change weight depending on their contents: https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/31326/is-a-hard-...

Hard disks use a run-length limited encoding, so the number of magnetic 1s and 0s remains roughly constant no matter what logical 1s and 0s you store.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Run-length_limited

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