Unfortunately, many "government" employees, include scientists at the Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia labratories...among many other places.
When they retire, we can let the kids with Ethnic studies and fine arts degrees design and develop our high tech future.
For some reason, I can't visualize cello players showing an interest in rocket design. There's so much dead wood in corporate worlds and academia that many are paid to retire, resign or just go away.