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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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mars4rp wrote: post #254
tempsolution wrote: post #241

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Yes it does. If there actually was a bigger demand than there is supply, the salary would raise. The main reason why it doesn't is because a programming language or frameworks are not a barrier for any top developer. Skills usually transfer very well. The real crux of the matter is that these companies don't want to pay top salaries and thus don't get top developers. As long as there are people who navigate themselve…

I really don't want to judge your ability, I agree with your comment about C#, Java, JS, C ,... but COBOL is a completely different animal to reason with. Been there and ran as fast as I could.

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

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Post by orf »

hestefisk wrote: post #81
nabla9 wrote: post #73

Modern is relative. F-22's first flight was 1997. F-35 development started in 1992, first flight of X-35 was 2000 and F-35's first flight was 2006. There is absolutely noting wrong with using old technology. Being modern just for the sake of being modern is wasteful.

No Microservices, no Kubernetes. Lame.

`docker pull` after a failure mid engagement

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

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Post by jammygit »

Frost1x wrote: post #200
toast0 wrote: post #182

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That it's (now) uncommon technology is only a small part of the hiring problem. Anyway, what's the alternative here? It is almost certainly not worth the effort to rewrite everything in today's common environment 30 years into the service life of the jet; whatever you do now is going to be uncommon again. A bigger part of the hiring problem is aerospace software, specifically military aerospace software is a difficul…

Bingo. The current hiring model of "hit-the-ground-sprinting day 1" I suspect is largely the problem here and stems across many industries complaining about hiring difficulties. Since this "best existing skillset match" hiring model businesses have widely chosen to adopt provide little-to-no on the job training, people will inherently focus on learning the most widely adopted skills of their target market(s) to incre…

I was recently considering learning the SAS data stack and decided against it for exactly this reason. However, I’m not completely convinced it was the right choice. Does anyone else have experience that could shed light on this situation?

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

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Post by Torwald »

mars4rp wrote: post #254
tempsolution wrote: post #241

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes it does. If there actually was a bigger demand than there is supply, the salary would raise. The main reason why it doesn't is because a programming language or frameworks are not a barrier for any top developer. Skills usually transfer very well. The real crux of the matter is that these companies don't want to pay top salaries and thus don't get top developers. As long as there are people who navigate themselve…

I really don't want to judge your ability, I agree with your comment about C#, Java, JS, C ,... but COBOL is a completely different animal to reason with. Been there and ran as fast as I could.

Sounds interesting. Can you point me to a COBOL listing that shows some of this difference?

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

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Post by hinkley »

inetsee wrote: post #149

I worked for Lockheed Martin for more than a decade and I have many of the qualifications listed, including VAX experience and a special access clearance. Of course, Lockheed laid me off fourteen years ago and I retired three years ago, so I guess I won't be applying.

I knew Boeing people who came back with a raise under similar circumstances. Charge them extra for the honor, and reward yourself with something nice at the end. This is bonus money after all.

The binge-purge cycle at these places is not how I think things should be run, but I expect Congress is somewhat to blame for the cycling.

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

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Post by souprock »

devonkim wrote: post #135
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…

The larger defense contractors have issues paying software engineers remotely close to private industry nowadays. In certain regions of the US the software market is dominated by defense though. Back in the early 2000s I know of some J2EE architects that pulled $200k as defense contractors once they got a Sun certification. The certification and diploma mill market in the US is driven squarely by big federally funded…

You can get the pay increase associated with "cyber" in the name without having to live in the costly DC area. That works for me, supporting 12 kids on a single income. The work-life balance is to be appreciated as well, with 40-hour weeks (or paid overtime) and flexible hours.

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

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Post by JudgeWapner »

adrianN wrote: post #67
tirpen wrote: post #33

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For airplanes flying at high altitudes with modern computers, random bit flips from comsmic radiation is actually a very real threat that has to be considered. IIRC there's about a factor of about 300x more radiation at 30000 ft and 900x at 60000 ft. Core memory is a lot less sensitive to this than most memory types, so it makes some sense to store the most flight critical data in such a memory.

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

or a lead liner? I know lead and aircraft don't mix, but a thin lead shield over just the computing boards shouldn't add too much weight, should it?

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

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Post by euler_angles »

perl4ever wrote: post #251
euler_angles wrote: post #201

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The program knows it's being wasteful. It is just limited in what it can do about it. Mainly because the same kinds of thinking used to get the program into this mess are what's being tried to get the program out of this mess. Einstein had the definitive quote on how well that works. "We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them."

"Einstein had the definitive quote" I think you're thinking of Mark Twain.

No, I'm not.

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

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Post by euler_angles »

thfuran wrote: post #258
evancich wrote: post #230

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You are 1000% wrong. Pay scales are "owned" by the DMCA. https://www.dcma.mil/DCMA-Pricing-Support/ A PhD with 20 years of experience = this pay band You can pay your people whatever you want, but the gov will only pay your people what the DCMA says they are worth. If you pay higher, it comes out of profit (which is also metered by the DCMA) or some other source. Source: A own a R&D engineering company that works for…

Tickets?

Accesses to special programs.

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

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Post by wbl »

stcredzero wrote: post #243
euler_angles wrote: post #217

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The technologies may have a shorter iteration time, but can the defense establishment adapt? I am skeptical but hope you are correct.

If I were Taiwan, I would be working with the US to engage in a crash program of developing AI drone mini-subs. Basically, develop the ability to make the waters around Taiwan exceedingly dangerous, even without air superiority.

Conscripts are the AI.
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