Pros
Great opportunity to work closely with integrated interdisciplinary client- company technical teams to address priority government issues. Ability to act as a non-biased (not for profit) Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation partner for government.
Cons
Extremely weak senior leadership that has no direct experience working inside the government and are thus baffled by government priorities and internal issues. focused on maximizing CTC direct labor at the expense of building best technical team with subcontractors to best meet client needs. This earned the long-standing nickname "Cash The Check". CTC power base (all the execs) live in the backwoods of rural Pennsylvania - far removed from the realities of government clients. CTC used to invest heavily into infrastructure (labs, etc) and expertise - now, not so much. Take an eye-opening look at Morning Star to see what CTC does with it's "excess revenue". Heavy congressionally-driven government investment in the first 25 years of CTC has tapered to a trickle and the resulting CTC shrinkage is indication that, since congressional markups are much more limited, the government agencies just don't see enough value returned to justify further investment. How can CTC competitively lose major core-capability contracts that were previously held for decades (Metal Technology, Environmental Technology, Systems Technology, etc) that CTC had ample opportunity to become uniquely indispensable to government?