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You're reading the job description all wrong...you've got to think like a hiring manager in the defense industry to make any sense of it, i.e. reverse qualification priorities and the actual job you'll be hired to perform will become crystal clear.

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AS a Systems Engineer in the Defense industry I completely agree. It is only because we talk about a maintenance role that DOORS doesn’t come on the list with Word.

> ...DOORS doesn’t come on the list with Word.

Got to give the hiring manager some credit. Listing DOORS as a proficiency requirement is a sure way to prolong vacancy.

I'll bite. What is DOORS and how can I specialize in it to put my skills in high demand?

DOORS the standard tool for requirements management that combines the worst technologies IBM has to offer in order to provide you with a way of entering hypertext into a database.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOORS

Oh of course it's a "Rational" product

The makers of many point and click puzzle games disguised as development tools.

Is this similar to Jama?

part of the IBM suite of bullshit job creation tools

https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSYQBZ_9.5.2/...

DOORS is probably the reason I can't go back to the Aero industry. It still haunts my dreams. I would rather work on maintaining Excel VBA scripts rather than go back to DOORS. DXL was a goddamn nightmare.

Exactly, if you really want to work on the engineering bits you'll get hired by one of Lockheed's sub contractors.

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