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Anonymous
Which place? |
Anonymous
The RIF is another 600 people by August 11th. One more RIF "potentially" in October. |
Anonymous
It's not layoffs, it's contracts getting cancelled or not renewed. |
Anonymous
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As PPs stated, in recent years FFRDCs like MITRE moved into traditional government contractor work, taking on SETA and SI work that should have been bid out. It was a gravy train with FFRDCs handed no-compete work for its staff for months at a time (I benefited as a former mitre employee). At times, some astute (prime) contractor PMs on site protested to the COTR and we’d be suddenly booted off a task, but mainly we coexisted and pretended to undertake unique FFRDC tasks.
The FFRDC layoffs are occurring but traditional government contractors are still winning new work with more coming from the new beautiful bill. But much of that work is not going to the FFRDCs. |
Anonymous
That’s the total # employees @CNA! Technical and administrative staff. |
Anonymous
Govie here. I've been seeing some stuff that makes me think some of the less-well-run FFRDCs are gonna have a rough few years. From what I've heard, it sounds like Mitre was already a mess thanks to their old president, and now RAND is heading down the same path. CNA, IDA, and LL are also taking some hits, but it seems like their leadership is doing a better job of handling things than the others. |
Anonymous
| MITRE was vandalized by a mob and has nothing to do with mismanagement. |
Anonymous
IDA had contracts cancelled so they RIFd people. Same as everywhere else. What exactly do you think was different in terms of leadership? |
Anonymous
wut? |
Anonymous
Details? |
Anonymous
They’re referencing the current administration. Not unfairly, but still ignoring a whole lotta recent MITRE history. |
Anonymous
http://www.thinktankwatch.com/2023/12/rand-corp-received-millions-from.html |
Anonymous
This exactly. MITRE had a ton of public sector contracts of DOGE’s “list”. But it still seems crazy that they laid off/ are about to lay off 1600+ people this year. They seemed ill prepared to adapt to the administration change in both management and fiscal perspectives. |
Anonymous
| Mitre lost its work to for profit government contractors. Also as PP said above, they aren’t supposed to do regular tasks like SETAs that should be competed. We had a group of Mitre cybersecurity “experts” (NOT) in our IT organization that were let go but quickly replaced by cybersecurity contract staff from the prime on site. |
Anonymous
I was asking what CNA, IDA, and LL specifically are doing well now, weirdo RAND person. |