From AP:WASHINGTON — Federal agencies are facing a severe shortage of computer specialists, even as a growing wave of coordinated cyberattacks against the government poses potential national security risks, a private study found.
The study describes a fragmented federal cyber force, where no one is in charge of overall planning and government agencies are "on their own and sometimes working at cross purposes or in competition with one another."
The report, scheduled to be released Wednesday, arrives in the wake of a series of cyberattacks this month that shut down some U.S. and South Korean government and financial Web sites.
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My Comment: The reason(s) why computer specialists are not rushing to apply for jobs with the government are multiple .... but the main reasons are (1) pay .... there is more money in the private sector. (2) Computer geeks have a culture of working the hours that they want .... government operates slightly differently. (3) Politics and bureaucracy .... two environments that computer specialists stay away from (another cultural component of the field). (4) The best in the computer industry respond negatively to bureaucracy and a vertical type of management of management structure .... government is all vertical.
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