NSA Exodus (Score 2)

While I was still working for the Treasury Department last year, I was asked to do some research on certain technology businesses, but the one article that caught my eye was about the number of people from the NSA who were leaving to go work for RSA or Netscape or such designing crypto systems from 3x what they were making at the NSA. One of the comments was from a guy who had worked at Ft. Meade before leaving, and had mentioned that while there was nothing like being launched off the deck of an aircraft carrier (I would assume on an E-2 Hawkeye), he was enjoying his new job (and extra money) even more. The article made a point of mentioning that the NSA was having a hard time keeping people on after the usual four-five year stints they spend out of college. They'd get experience working on crypto for the government, and then when the time came they'd jump ship to go work in the private sector, and this had become a bit of a problem even to the point of NSA starting to offer even more money, but they just can't compete. It reminds me a lot of the numerous people I know who have left the military or just the numbers of people leaving the military because the rest of the DoD is investing so much in things like the F-22 that they can't afford to pay (opinionated) decent salaries to the guys who actually work on the tech.