Pros
For the technical staff, project variety keeps the work interesting and challenging. Travel opportunities to unique locations can arise because most of the projects are for defense clients. Based on exposure to the productivity and quality work of clients, partners, and subcontractors, the CTC staff is a good team of folks who deliver quality products. Overall they are hard working, efficient, and very practical.
Cons
Although it can make the work more interesting, expect to juggle several projects at once. These projects may or may not be related. Generally, it’s each technical employee's responsibility to find work and associated “project charge numbers.” The constant pressure to maintain full work coverage plus often balancing competing project needs can be very stressful. Most technical staff personnel also have business development goals in addition to their technical projects. Expect to contribute or lead white paper and proposal development as it's primarily the technical staff that does the writing and cost estimates. CTC has been losing business and correspondingly actively cutting staff (and therefore capabilities). Consequently, nearly everyone is worried about their jobs and the stress shows. It's hard to hear much laughter in the halls nowadays due to job security concerns. Plus, as people leave either voluntarily or non-voluntarily, the workload shifts to those who remain, causing many to become more overloaded and burned out. Career opportunities are limited to what project you can get on; don't expect to be asked what your 5-year goals are. No one cares.