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Anonymous
More likely they will release leased office space elsewhere in Tysons... |
Anonymous
They also have fellows that were running around the pentagon spouting off about stuff they knew little about. |
Anonymous
| Mitre has required people who have offices to be in office at least 3 days a week if not more for many years now. Policy changed prior to this administration. |
Anonymous
NITRE has very few leased office spaces left, if any. Moreover they own the 4 buildings in Tysons. They will have to find tenants for their existing spaces (which won't be easy), and likely consolidate operations into a smaller footprint. |
Anonymous
Isn’t MITRE an R&D FFRDC? Don’t they need physical lab space? |
Anonymous
I think most of their "labs" just have racks with electronics and computers. They are not primarily chemistry-type labs. |
Anonymous
| Mitre was a powerhouse only a few years ago and now it's laying off folks and struggling to keep their buildings. Jesus. |
Anonymous
| I agree. It's sad. |
Anonymous
Not really because Mitre grew too quickly and hired more staff than positions open. Also, in its early years, Mitre hired very technical engineers, SMEs and specialized staff but as it grew and evolved, Mitre took on similar work as for-profit government contractors and hired from the same pool of candidates (contract staff and former feds). But, as PPs pointed out, FFRDC staff carry a lot of overhead to perform similar work. |
Anonymous
This sounds kind of similar to what is happening at RAND. The current CEO (ironically also named Jason) has hired technical staff to quickly grow into AI policy, which all caries a lot of overhead. The only difference is that for some reason RAND's CEO took their FFRDCs for granted thinking they would always be printing money. Philanthropy became the primary focus. Under Trump, this approach has been a disaster and we seem to be headed for some serious RIFs. |
Anonymous
| So far, over 1,000 MITRE employees laid off and more RIFs might come in summer/fall. The"new normal" under Trump. |
Anonymous
This. A former colleague was a Fed and part of his job duties was limiting the number of inexperienced new grads, who knew relatively little, that Mitre assigned to their part of the DoD. Mitre originally had a minimal number of new grads and primarily hired genuine experts in various fields, and then had those experts actually doing work in their field. This started to fall apart in the Defense boom of the late 1980s when Mitre shifted to hiring tons of new grads and a surprisingly high number of “PhDs” from either no-name colleges or online PhD programs (rather than a PhD from VT or UMCP or similar quality universities). Yes, there still are some very good people at Mitre and many today have legitimate PhDs with an actual dissertation and refereed publications as a grad student — but Mitre does not today have the same overall quality as it did back in the 1970s or early 1980s. MIT/LL has not grown as much or as quickly as Mitre, and also has done a better job of maintaining overall quality. |
Anonymous
No, Mitre always laid off employees when work levels were low... it was quietly handled and not obvious. I was laid off apx. 10+ years ago, along with several colleagues, because Mitre couldn't find me a suitable assignment that wasn't 30-50+ miles away. I could not commute from NoVA to sites in Maryland with strict school and daycare pickup schedules. Mitre called me back within a few weeks to ask me to return to a local assignment but I had already started another job (that I still hold today). As PP said, Mitre recently hired too many employees. Unfortunately some long-time staff were let go in favor of the younger and cheaper... but that is a topic for another thread. |
Anonymous
| CNA is downsizing. |
Anonymous
Oh my. Geese. How many impacted? |