In this episode, our guest Karen Thornton introduces us to the recently launched Defense Civilian Training Corps (DCTC) and explains how the Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC)  is partnering with four pilot universities and key DoD organizations to strategically develop talent who can immediately contribute to solve challenging national security problems in collaboration with industry and adapt to the future. The Defense Civilian Training Corps is a congressionally-mandated talent development program that provides a multidisciplinary, active-learning curriculum with summer internship projects at DoD organizations. DCTC is a highly selective pilot program that provides a 100% tuition scholarship and prepares scholars for a direct pathway into DoD acquisition-related careers.   Defense Civilian Training Corps: https://dctc.mil/ Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC): https://acqirc.org/dctc/ AIRC on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/defense-civilian-training-corps-dctc/ __________________________________________________________ This episode is sponsored by Raytheon. https://www.rtx.com/raytheon __________________________________________________________ http://emergingtechnologiesinstitute.org https://www.facebook.com/EmergingTechETI https://www.linkedin.com/company/ndia-eti-emerging-technologies-institute https://www.twitter.com/EmergingTechETI