U.S. Geek Shortage

OH NOES! The U.S. Defense Department (The Pentagon’s DARPA arm) is saying that the amount of geeks rising in the ranks may be declining! They perceive this as a national threat! I agree. The Chinese don’t appear to be having this problem as seen lately with the latest attacks on American companies [PC World reports source could be from Google employees in China].

Darpa’s worried that America’s “ability to compete in the increasingly internationalized stage will be hindered without college graduates with the ability to understand and innovate cutting edge technologies in the decades to come…. Finding the right people with increasingly specialized talent is becoming more difficult and will continue to add risk to a wide range of DoD [Department of Defense] systems that include software development.”

Darpa is looking to attract teens to careers in science in hopes to effect change. According to the Computer Research Association, computer science enrollment dropped 43 percent between 2003 and 2006.

Read More at Wired.