FFRDCs

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DOGE is reviewing FFRDCs now. Your employer cannot retaliate against you for reporting waste, fraud, and abuse. DMs open. https://x.com/DOGE_DOW

If you are on DOGE, please remember to retain counsel when you are deposed.

Rumor is they are looking into equitable indirects.

[Anonymous]

What’s that?

[Anonymous]

It means that shared business costs are divided fairly across all government contracts that a contractor was awarded.

[Anonymous]

What about non gov contracts?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What do they do while onboard?

The analysts look at operations plan alternatives, get answers to questions from flag and senior officers on the ship, provide independent analysis of situations, help with after action reporting, often run statistical / numerical analysis of ship or TF issues, and all kinds of other stuff. A lot of 16 hour work days - no overtime pay.

Very interesting. Thank you

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]What about non gov contracts?[/quote]

That's a big part of this exercise. MAGA thinks that liberals are secretly using the FFRDCs to push their agenda in the deep state. Their words, not mine.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous]What about non gov contracts?[/quote]

In theory, non-government work goes towards a separate business unit / PL statement. They take their share of costs like buildings, but your day to day overhead and indirect charging will be totally separate from the FFRDC business.

[Anonymous]

The biggest problem is that discounting labor on non-gov projects shrinks your direct labor base, which artificially inflates your overall indirect cost rate. As a result, the government ends up subsidizing your non-gov work by paying a disproportionately higher share of your company's overhead.

[Anonymous]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What about non gov contracts?[/quote]

That's a big part of this exercise. MAGA thinks that liberals are secretly using the FFRDCs to push their agenda in the deep state. Their words, not mine.[/quote]

Meanwhile the actual fraud roars on.

The whole point of an FFRDC contract is to ask them to deliver an uncomfortable truth, regardless of whether you like the answer. You don't have to act on it, you're the government! It is not uncommon for a delivered analyses to quietly become shelfware because it is just too inconvenient.

If MAGA were smart they would look at historical FFRDC technical deliverables and try to understand why they were not acted on.

Instead, MAGA is going to lose the midterms due to their obscene grift and managerial incompetence. They public is paying attention.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest problem is that discounting labor on non-gov projects shrinks your direct labor base, which artificially inflates your overall indirect cost rate. As a result, the government ends up subsidizing your non-gov work by paying a disproportionately higher share of your company's overhead.

Sounds like it could relate to GER @ RAND.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The biggest problem is that discounting labor on non-gov projects shrinks your direct labor base, which artificially inflates your overall indirect cost rate. As a result, the government ends up subsidizing your non-gov work by paying a disproportionately higher share of your company's overhead.

Who is discounting labor?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The biggest problem is that discounting labor on non-gov projects shrinks your direct labor base, which artificially inflates your overall indirect cost rate. As a result, the government ends up subsidizing your non-gov work by paying a disproportionately higher share of your company's overhead.

Who is discounting labor?

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[Anonymous]

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just want a CEO who isn’t associated w/ some batshit EA cult and isn’t hijacking a 75-year-old brand to LARP as the world’s savior from the AI robot apocalypse.

I snort laughed. This is my new favorite description.

[Anonymous]

IDA getting new leadership. https://www.ida.org/research-and-publications/publications/all/a/ad/adm-charles-a-richard-joins-ida-as-new-president