Forbes just announced their top 200 veteran employers, with defense contractors locking in 30% of the top 10 spots. It makes sense to leave one mission-driven career for another one. Forbes built the list, based on a survey of over 7,000 U.S. veterans, looking for company traits that showed career development, leadership opportunities, and recruitment of veterans.
“Today, companies want to hire veterans. Not only is there regulatory benefit given government initiatives like tax breaks and salary subsidies, veterans are seen as an exceptional class of people,” says Jim Craig, a professor of Sociology at the University of Missouri–St. Louis and a former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army.
Defense contractors or government agencies in the top 25 on the list are NASA, Leidos, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, Boeing, SpaceX, EPA, and CACI.
Layoffs: Oracle
Not everyone is headed to the cloud. Over at Oracle, they have recently laid off about 200 employees in their cloud unit. Business Insider reports that the layoffs hit Oracle’s Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) unit and the North America Cloud Infrastructure and Technology (NACT) unit.
Hiring: Norma Precision
Georgia continues to be a hotbed for gun and ammunition makers. Norma Precision is building its new facility in Savannah, GA, following its acquisition by gun maker, Beretta. Norma’s 88 employees will be offered transfers to Georgia. But the company is investing $60 million to build a plant, and they plan to hire 600 people. Norma has been making ammunition in the U.S. for over a decade, and the future continues to show growth ahead.
Cleared Employer at Work: CISA
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Opportunity to Watch
Elbit Sytems was awarded a $72 million contract to supply Hermes™ 900 Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) and training capabilities to an international customer. The contract will be performed over a two-year period.
Under the contract, Elbit Systems will supply Hermes 900 UAS equipped with the SkEye™ Wide Area Persistent Surveillance system, SPECTRO™ XR multi-spectral Electro-Optical payload, Satellite Communication, Signal Intelligence (SIGINT) payloads and additional capabilities.
Yoram Shmuely, General Manager of Elbit Systems Aerospace said, “This contract is another vote of confidence in the Hermes family of UAS. We are witnessing growing demand around the globe for our unmanned solutions that are capable of effective integration with manned forces to address the rapidly evolving threats in all domains of operation.”
