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Military Drops Recruiting Efforts at Prestigious Black Engineering Awards Event

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https://www.military.com/daily-news/2025/02/10/military-drops-recruiting-efforts-prestigious-black-engineering-awards-event.html

The Army and other service branches are
abandoning recruiting efforts at a
prestigious Black engineering event this
week, turning down access to a key pool
of highly qualified potential applicants
amid President Donald Trump's purge of
diversity initiatives in the military.

Until this week, Army Recruiting Command
had a long-standing public partnership
with the Black Engineer of the Year Awards,
or BEYA, an annual conference that draws
students, academics and professionals in
science, technology, engineering and math,
also known as STEM.

The event, which takes place in Baltimore,
has historically been a key venue for the
Pentagon to recruit talent, including
awarding Reserve Officers' Training Corps
scholarships and pitching military service
to rising engineers. Past BEYA events have
included the Army chief of staff and the
defense secretary.

"This is one of the most talent-dense events
we do," one Army recruiter told Military.com
on the condition that their name not be used.
"Our footprint there has always been
significant. We need the talent."

The services cited concerns that
participation in the predominantly Black event
could run afoul of Trump's orders and the
Pentagon's intensifying push to erase
diversity efforts in the military, according
to multiple sources familiar with the decision.
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Jan. 31
ordered that Black History Month, Women's
History Month and others were officially
"dead" and that the military would no longer
mark them.

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