It takes a lifetime to train an NASA engineer, but it only takes a moment to make their career disappear. Unless the country wants to import the next batch from China, it better find a way to keep the current crop employed as well as encourage the next graduating class.
I had a cube-mate...A Russian engineer...He was a specialist in leak detection methodology...One of the smartest guys I knew...And a good man!!!
His job before coming to America (immigrate) was as a technician responsible for the wiring integration between the targeting computers and the nuclear warheads on Russian ICBM’s (MIRV’s)...
How ironic...