Over Supply of CS Grads?

ChoatieMom
Wed, 22 May 2024 05:25:17 +0000

Rivet2000:

The defense industry is one that is rapidly turning to machine learning for new capabilities so I think that over the next several years they will be major employers of CS graduates with ML background. Recent large contracts for autonomous combat aircraft are just the beginning. There will be opportunities galore in the defense industry for CS grads.

Absolutely this.

One of the large defense contractors came after our son a couple of years ago with a significant offer plus a buy-out of his Army contract after he solved a problem in a few days that they had wasted two years and $70 million in government money only to bow out saying it couldn’t be done. He also solved a long-standing problem with desert-terrain robot navigation while he was at West Point. Both were convolutional neural network (AI/ML) solutions. He received a commendation medal for both efforts and has a standing offer from the NSA post-commitment—where many Cyber officers end up as the Army can’t pay what the military cyber complex can.

Our son is somewhat unique in the Army but, in general, there isn’t enough deep AI/ML talent for all the current defense initiatives much less what’s on the board at Army Futures Command, and much of this work is shared with/offloaded to contractors. There is PLENTY of opportunity and compensation for civilian talent willing to work with the war (er, defense) machine.