Navy nuclear propulsion

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Enderwastaken: Oct 11, 2007; by angerbot

Does anyone know how well our job stuff translates into other, generic "defense contractor" stuff? I ask because I got contacted by Triple Canopy about a job working OM&IS (logistics) for them. I'm not sure if I got the call because they figure one vet is the same as another, or if i actually have something they want.

I'm tempted to do it, not just because of the salary, but because between that and the political stuff I've gotten involved in, it could be very helpful if I ever went back to work in the defense/DC area.

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Enderwastaken: Oct 11, 2007; by angerbot

flux_core posted:

I just spoke to a DoD employed engineer who told me, predictably, to be a contractor.

Then he went further into detail, apparently nukes in the navy do nothing but maintain everything, despite being trained to do all but design one themselves from scratch, and basically end up babysitting a reactor while under a pile of paperwork.

Ouch.

sounds about right, yeah

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Is there any actual R&D done by the military itself anymore?

They do some stuff at Ballston Spa. When I was up there they had emptied out D1G to start testing something new there. Rumor was it was a mini reactor for NASA. I like to tell myself that smokepad rumor was true, but it was probably something like testing the efficiency of a different ELT chemical concentration or something similarly boring.

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