FFRDCs

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is IDA stabilized? Are they rehiring?

FWIW - RAND continued to have open positions and hire even while doing a RIF. While the company is actively shedding it’s insitituional knowledge and deep expertise, it is still hiring for 2 year positions focused only on AI. Seems to be indicative of where the CEO has shifted the priorities.

You would probably be happier at a place that values your "institutional knowledge and deep expertise," so why don't you leave?

Impressive. For just one sentence, that is a myriad of inaccurate assumptions being asserted. Setting your incorrect assumptions aside, earlier someone pointed out that in these organizations, many find deep fulfilment in the work and with the teams, and deep disappointment with managment and current leadership decisions. Those are not mutually exclusive. And other comments have pointed to the hope that the current leadership issues at RAND will be remedied. Thus, it appears that not only is your remark full of wrong assumptions, the question has already had several explanations provided.

The new leadership isn't going anywhere so you should find a place that values your "institutional knowledge."

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is IDA stabilized? Are they rehiring?

FWIW - RAND continued to have open positions and hire even while doing a RIF. While the company is actively shedding it’s insitituional knowledge and deep expertise, it is still hiring for 2 year positions focused only on AI. Seems to be indicative of where the CEO has shifted the priorities.

RAND is currently hiring a ton of summer associates…. while laying off their full time research staff.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is IDA stabilized? Are they rehiring?

FWIW - RAND continued to have open positions and hire even while doing a RIF. While the company is actively shedding it’s insitituional knowledge and deep expertise, it is still hiring for 2 year positions focused only on AI. Seems to be indicative of where the CEO has shifted the priorities.

RAND is currently hiring a ton of summer associates…. while laying off their full time research staff.

I am very sorry but it is OCTOBER so they are not yet hiring summer associates. Those two year AI positions may be linked to a particular contract and current full time staff may not have the expertise. And what are YOU doing to bring in new work? All that time complaining on the internet could usefully be spent on something more productive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is IDA stabilized? Are they rehiring?

FWIW - RAND continued to have open positions and hire even while doing a RIF. While the company is actively shedding it’s insitituional knowledge and deep expertise, it is still hiring for 2 year positions focused only on AI. Seems to be indicative of where the CEO has shifted the priorities.

RAND is currently hiring a ton of summer associates…. while laying off their full time research staff.

I am very sorry but it is OCTOBER so they are not yet hiring summer associates. Those two year AI positions may be linked to a particular contract and current full time staff may not have the expertise. And what are YOU doing to bring in new work? All that time complaining on the internet could usefully be spent on something more productive.

I am very sorry that you have no idea what is going on because RAND is hiring summer associates right now as you could see on their website https://rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/ Full time staff do have the expertise but RAND leadership has either RIF'd them, enticed them to take a buyout, or forced them to leave because of the crumbling of RAND's governance structure due to poor senior leadership. I have brought in quite a bit of work thank you very much, despite the very clear and public governance breakdown inside of RAND. I probably could have brought in even more work if this breakdown had not occurred in the first place.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:What’s happening at CNA?

IPR's work slowed down but the FFRDC is going fine

I heard about 20+ RIFs coming soon.

Are the RIFs in IPR or the Center for Naval Analysis or both?

ipr

CNA Management meets every week to reassess the number of how many IPR staff needed...some of the reassessment is bleeding over into overhead staff (VP of business development was fired about a month ago), and now FFRDC.

Very sorry to hear the FFRDC is also starting to cut. It already is very small.

I haven’t heard about RIFs in the FFRDC side during CNA management meetings I have been at.

Not yet, but FFRDC is the stable of the two...and yes, some higher-level management will be double-hatting as we move down the shutdown and "government contracts cut" path. But you know about the IPR cuts, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is IDA stabilized? Are they rehiring?

FWIW - RAND continued to have open positions and hire even while doing a RIF. While the company is actively shedding it’s insitituional knowledge and deep expertise, it is still hiring for 2 year positions focused only on AI. Seems to be indicative of where the CEO has shifted the priorities.

RAND is currently hiring a ton of summer associates…. while laying off their full time research staff.

I am very sorry but it is OCTOBER so they are not yet hiring summer associates. Those two year AI positions may be linked to a particular contract and current full time staff may not have the expertise. And what are YOU doing to bring in new work? All that time complaining on the internet could usefully be spent on something more productive.

I am very sorry that you have no idea what is going on because RAND is hiring summer associates right now as you could see on their website https://rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/ Full time staff do have the expertise but RAND leadership has either RIF'd them, enticed them to take a buyout, or forced them to leave because of the crumbling of RAND's governance structure due to poor senior leadership. I have brought in quite a bit of work thank you very much, despite the very clear and public governance breakdown inside of RAND. I probably could have brought in even more work if this breakdown had not occurred in the first place.

The person you are responding to doesn’t seem to be interested in anything other than telling everyone else that they are in the wrong, regardless of the topic, or underlying assumptions (which at least one person has noted were false). It appears as though it’s the same person who is insisting that anyone who isn’t singing the praises of the current RAND leadership is a disgruntled RAND employee who should just quit. Particularly interesting to me is that the person has resorted to ad hominem attacks for seemingly no reason. And it appears as though when someone else pointed out that some RAND employees are driven by the mission, that this person doesn’t think that is a valid reason to try and hold out and hope for change, implying that this person doesn’t feel driven by the mission.

I heard that additional rounds of layoffs are in progress at RAND. Operating under the assumption that you are a RAND employee, I hope things are going as well for you as they can.

[Anonymous]

Can we have a “Rand haters and those who hate them” thread and a general FFRDC thread? I am here for the news and didn’t bring popcorn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we have a “Rand haters and those who hate them” thread and a general FFRDC thread? I am here for the news and didn’t bring popcorn.

Be the change you wish you see!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is IDA stabilized? Are they rehiring?

FWIW - RAND continued to have open positions and hire even while doing a RIF. While the company is actively shedding it’s insitituional knowledge and deep expertise, it is still hiring for 2 year positions focused only on AI. Seems to be indicative of where the CEO has shifted the priorities.

RAND is currently hiring a ton of summer associates…. while laying off their full time research staff.

I am very sorry but it is OCTOBER so they are not yet hiring summer associates. Those two year AI positions may be linked to a particular contract and current full time staff may not have the expertise. And what are YOU doing to bring in new work? All that time complaining on the internet could usefully be spent on something more productive.

I am very sorry that you have no idea what is going on because RAND is hiring summer associates right now as you could see on their website https://rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/ Full time staff do have the expertise but RAND leadership has either RIF'd them, enticed them to take a buyout, or forced them to leave because of the crumbling of RAND's governance structure due to poor senior leadership. I have brought in quite a bit of work thank you very much, despite the very clear and public governance breakdown inside of RAND. I probably could have brought in even more work if this breakdown had not occurred in the first place.

The person you are responding to doesn’t seem to be interested in anything other than telling everyone else that they are in the wrong, regardless of the topic, or underlying assumptions (which at least one person has noted were false). It appears as though it’s the same person who is insisting that anyone who isn’t singing the praises of the current RAND leadership is a disgruntled RAND employee who should just quit. Particularly interesting to me is that the person has resorted to ad hominem attacks for seemingly no reason. And it appears as though when someone else pointed out that some RAND employees are driven by the mission, that this person doesn’t think that is a valid reason to try and hold out and hope for change, implying that this person doesn’t feel driven by the mission.

I heard that additional rounds of layoffs are in progress at RAND. Operating under the assumption that you are a RAND employee, I hope things are going as well for you as they can.

if I had to guess, the pro-RAND poster is Jason or his buddies in GER. Just a random guess…..

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Is IDA stabilized? Are they rehiring?

FWIW - RAND continued to have open positions and hire even while doing a RIF. While the company is actively shedding it’s insitituional knowledge and deep expertise, it is still hiring for 2 year positions focused only on AI. Seems to be indicative of where the CEO has shifted the priorities.

RAND is currently hiring a ton of summer associates…. while laying off their full time research staff.

I am very sorry but it is OCTOBER so they are not yet hiring summer associates. Those two year AI positions may be linked to a particular contract and current full time staff may not have the expertise. And what are YOU doing to bring in new work? All that time complaining on the internet could usefully be spent on something more productive.

I am very sorry that you have no idea what is going on because RAND is hiring summer associates right now as you could see on their website https://rand.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/External_Career_Site/ Full time staff do have the expertise but RAND leadership has either RIF'd them, enticed them to take a buyout, or forced them to leave because of the crumbling of RAND's governance structure due to poor senior leadership. I have brought in quite a bit of work thank you very much, despite the very clear and public governance breakdown inside of RAND. I probably could have brought in even more work if this breakdown had not occurred in the first place.

The person you are responding to doesn’t seem to be interested in anything other than telling everyone else that they are in the wrong, regardless of the topic, or underlying assumptions (which at least one person has noted were false). It appears as though it’s the same person who is insisting that anyone who isn’t singing the praises of the current RAND leadership is a disgruntled RAND employee who should just quit. Particularly interesting to me is that the person has resorted to ad hominem attacks for seemingly no reason. And it appears as though when someone else pointed out that some RAND employees are driven by the mission, that this person doesn’t think that is a valid reason to try and hold out and hope for change, implying that this person doesn’t feel driven by the mission.

I heard that additional rounds of layoffs are in progress at RAND. Operating under the assumption that you are a RAND employee, I hope things are going as well for you as they can.

It sounds like you left already, right? Your colleagues could do that too instead of staying at a place they hate.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we have a “Rand haters and those who hate them” thread and a general FFRDC thread? I am here for the news and didn’t bring popcorn.

Be the change you wish you see!

Appreciate you!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Can we have a “Rand CEO haters and those who hate them” thread and a general FFRDC thread? I am here for the news and didn’t bring popcorn.

ftfy

[Anonymous]

Aerospace? MIT/LL? JHU/APL?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aerospace? MIT/LL? JHU/APL?

At least as of a few weeks ago, the people I know at Aerospace felt like things were secure/stable and staying the course. (They are in the El Segundo office, so their perspectives might not hold true at other locations or in other divisions.)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can we have a “Rand CEO haters and those who hate them” thread and a general FFRDC thread? I am here for the news and didn’t bring popcorn.

ftfy

I think you have a crush on him.