Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Other than RAND and MITRE, how are other FFRDCs faring?
How are UARCs (e.g., JHU/APL) faring?
Similar funding cuts and layoffs? Or doing better?
CNA is a s*itshow
The concept of a think tank behind FFRDCs and UARCs is not getting much traction in the current environment of sci-fi fantasy, AI on Mars, virtual currency, etc. Educated professionals - yes, PhDs matter sometimes, don't have a place in a short attention-span, graphic novel, superhero motivated environment.
MITRE has always really been a fake FFRCD run exclusively by the business development team with a handful of thinkers and a legion of SETA butts-in-seats. VA Choice is an example. MITRE contracted-out all the actual analytics to RAND and the end products were useless - not moving the clinic appointment data needle at all, the one metric they were tasked with improving. Same goes for every single FFRDC they run - especially CAASDI. How's that thirty years of improving air traffic control working out for you?
Circling-back to the lack of need for the certification and critical thinking that come with a PhD, I tried to get Greg Corrado of Google to speak at RAND - despite his Stanford PhD - and he refused saying, more politely if I may summarize, why waste my time? If you want to point to a lack of need for PhDs, then selecting Google reflects your own lack of critical thinking as it was started by and has been run (on the technical end, anyway) by PhDs and on the management side by world-class business experts (not coders). Microsoft is a better example and they never F*k up, right? Sharepoint anyone?
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