Whatâs Going on Between North and South Korea. Tensions are rising again on the Korean peninsula after North and South Korea briefly exchanged heavy-arms fire in an escalation of confrontation. Hereâs what to know about whatâs going on this time around.
Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance. Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) contractors are civilian employees or government contractors who are contracted to assist the United States Department of Defense (DoD) components, and acquisition programs.
The Obama Administration and the Democratic Congress have begun the process of ramping down the number of contractors working for the Government. This is being done in two ways. First the Department of Defense especially is insourcing where jobs currently filled by contractors will be replaced with civil servants. Second is that Congress has ended the practice for now of using the A-76 process to convert civil service jobs to contractors. These two practices have led some in the Scientific, Engineering, Technical and Analytical (SETA) support business and the IT business to worry about the long term affects on their companies. SETA and IT make their money off of providing people to the Government. SETA provide the main support in acquisition and support offices of the services while IT support has often been contracted out due to cost and flexibility issues.