Re Hearing in Boston on conscription of cyber/IT and STEM workers

["Dave Farber" <farber () gmail com>]

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> From: L Jean Camp <ljeanc () gmail com>
> Date: May 7, 2018 at 9:51:10 AM EDT
> To: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Cc: ip <ip () listbox com>
> Subject: Re: [IP] Hearing in Boston on conscription of cyber/IT and STEM workers
> Reply-To: ljeanc () gmail com
>
> This would be a great way to reduce American students in STEM program even more.
>
> In fact, this is not just stupid. This is shameful.
>
> The NSF Scholarship for Service requires a year of public service for each year of scholarship. They funded ZERO new 
> scholarships last year,   The years the SFS scholarship is funded the highly rated and worthy of funding proposals 
> are usually funded at 25% -30%.   These funds go directly to the students, who then have to find internships in the 
> public sector, and then work in the public sector for one year for each year of scholarship. 
>
> The NSA Information Assurance scholarship program stopped accepting new students in I think 2008.  This is for 
> American students who have a 3.5 or better in a nationally certified computer security degree program.  These 
> students must be willing to go through a clearance process, spend internships in intelligence or military,  and work 
> one year in intelligence or military for each year supported by the scholarship. 
>
> Americans are desperate for support to enter security careers. The DoD spends more on pencils than security 
> scholarships.  The funds to fully support every qualified students in these programs would be minuscule budget dust 
> for the Department of Defense.  It would probably not even require a few more sedans and fewer luxury SUVs in the 
> motor pool. It would be so small as to be a tiny footnote in the NDAA.   These would support the infrastructure, help 
> Americans, and are an all round social good.
>
> To place more demands on a generation that is staggering under student debt, will have to pay off the lavish tax cuts 
> we have voted ourselves since Reagan, and pay for this wars while simultaneously refusing to invest a dime in 
> scholarships is simply shameful.
>
> To be factually crystal clear, the proposal here is to continue to refuse to support scholarships and then 
> conscripting people who had to work their way through because there is no DoD priority more disposable than 
> cybersecurity scholarships, as you can see by the zero budget for IAS in the NDAA.
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mon, May 7, 2018 at 9:11 AM, Dave Farber <farber () gmail com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > > From: "Edward Hasbrouck" <edward () hasbrouck org>
> > > Date: May 7, 2018 at 8:45:07 AM EDT
> > > To: dave () farber net
> > > Subject: Hearing in Boston on conscription of cyber/IT and STEM workers
> > >
> > > A "National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service" is 
> > > currently holding hearings throughout the US on the future of the draft, 
> > > draft registration, Selective Service, and compulsory service.
> > >
> > > The Commission has been directed to report and make recommendations to 
> > > Congress and the President on, among other issues, "the feasibility... of 
> > > modifying the military selective service process in order to obtain for 
> > > military, national, and public service individuals with skills (such as 
> > > medical, dental, and nursing skills, language skills, cyber skills, and 
> > > science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) skills) for which 
> > > the Nation has a critical need, without regard to age or sex."
> > >
> > > The Commission's next hearing is this Wednesday, May 9th, at Suffolk 
> > > University in Boston. It isn't necessary to sign up in advance to testify. 
> > >
> > > Background on the National Commission and these hearings:
> > >
> > > https://hasbrouck.org/blog/archives/002321.html
> > >
> > > Official commission notice of the hearing in Boston:
> > >
> > > http://inspire2serve.gov/news-events/please-join-us-our-public-forum-boston-massachusetts
> > >
> > > Other upcoming Commission hearings::
> > >
> > > http://inspire2serve.gov/news-events
> > >
> > > Most of the Commission's official publicity has been about promoting 
> > > volunteerism, so people who haven't read closely might not have realized 
> > > that their mandate is to study compulsory military and national service.
> > >
> > > Peace,
> > >
> > > Edward Hasbrouck
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > --------------------
> > > Draft Registration and Draft Resistance:
> > > http://www.resisters.info
> > >
> > > Health Care Workers and the Draft:
> > > http://www.MedicalDraft.info
> > >
> > > Edward Hasbrouck
> > > edward () hasbrouck org
> > > http://hasbrouck.org
> > > +1-415-824-0214
>
>
>
> -- 
> Prof. L. Jean Camp
> http://www.ljean.com
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