So changes in plans. Obviously not gonna pursue PMC career anymore or for that matter any profession of arms related jobs.

The pay is low compared to my engineering work and the opportunity is literally 0 for people like me. It's not that we are not qualified in skills nor knowledge but it has something to do with clearance, and security policy as well as industry job demand size.

For that matter, I will return to my original career in Engineering including my transition as an AI Engineer. The new plan is to maintain course in where we have established ourselves already. Pursue the Electrical Engineering (EE) formal education but stay away from the older traditional EE's because with the rise of AI things are changing and that the engineers that will be relevant moving forward are not the traditional EE anymore but the Computer Engineers, AI Engineers, anything where system integration is paramount and not deep specialization.

For that matter, a BSCpE fits me. After that I will get back to UP Diliman for MSEE under the specialization of Control Systems and Robotics. Will join the projects related to space tech such as microsatellite development while taking electives the four core graduate school physics courses from either MA or MS Physics. Then will proceed to PhD EEE and will specialize in maybe 3 fields, continuing control systems and robotics, microelectronics, and electromagnetics for communications and high speed circuits, while at the same time taking more electives from graduate school physics but not PhD Physics, the electives will come from MA or MS Physics and should be from condensed matter physics, quantum mechanics, and plasma physics. Outside MSEE or PhD EEE I will take a course on Nuclear Science under the DOST program.

I will pursue teaching and research under a university in Metro Manila and so I can have free access to the laboratories and do my R&D with the funding from or via the University. This is better than going solo like from my original plan. In that way establishing a company will also be much easier again compared to being solo without a university affiliation.

That means I'm going to pursue establishing companies outside the academe. The direction of the vision also changes significantly and instead of a general defense company, it will be a company focusing on AI applications both in the software / computing domain, and on the hardware / physical domain with an eye on AI and Physical AI systems development including integrating quantum engineering in relevant applications such as a quantum radar for example.

Of course on the sides, we will study theoretical physics apart from the electives that's im going to take while at MSEE and PhD EEE. I'm also interested in smart materials and meta materials which is under the field of condensed matter physics.

Let's do this!