DoD Brain Drain

From IHT.com:

Over the past decade, as spending on new military projects has reached its highest level since the Reagan years, the Pentagon has increasingly been losing the people most skilled at managing them. That brain drain... is a big factor in a breakdown in engineering management that has made huge cost overruns and long delays the maddening norm.

The article primarily focuses on a report about the Air Force, but this Brain Drain effects all defense contractors.