Russian Military Woos Young Computer Programmers. © RIA Novosti. Mikhail Fomitchev
Russian Military Woos Young Computer Programmers -- RIA Novosti
MOSCOW, July 4 (RIA Novosti) - Russia’s Defense Ministry is starting a wide-ranging “head hunt” for young computer programmers to develop new software for the forces, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Thursday.
Young people will be recruited straight after college into “scientific research units” in the Russian Armed Forces to develop “a software product that the army will need within the next five years,” Shoigu said at a meeting with college rectors and members of the public. He did not say what the software was designed to do.
The new units should help bring about “a new generation of people who will advance military science,” Shoigu said.
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My Comment: Russia's military has the same problem that the NSA has in recruiting top talent .... they cannot compete with the money that these programmers can earn in the private sector. Case in point .... my cousin's son is an accomplished computer programmer who was asked to stay in the Russian military after his service was up to work on some computer projects that required his skills .... he chose instead to work for an Australian bank that was setting up shop in the Ukraine.