FFRDCs

[Anonymous]

MITRE probably have kept more civil work if the civil customers believed they were getting good quality help from MITRE. At least some of those customers were unhappy with quality of the support received and felt a commercial SETA would do at least as well -- or better -- at lower cost.

Splitting MITRE in two would force the civil side company to focus on providing high quality support to (non-IC) civilian government offices.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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

[Anonymous]

How is the Govt shutdown affecting work at FFRDC's?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How is the Govt shutdown affecting work at FFRDC's?

All of RAND’s FFRDCs were WAY below ceiling in FY25. We are starting FY26 without the usual backlog of work. The shutdown makes a bad situation even worse. Word is that massive RIF plans are being finalized now and will occur right before the holidays. VPs for research, talent, finance, Arroyo have all suddenly resigned in the past few months. CEO says absolutely nothing to us and there’s no strategy outside of his sandbox that is the new AI division funded by philanthropy. Nobody seems to like working here anymore. It’s horrible.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the Govt shutdown affecting work at FFRDC's?

All of RAND’s FFRDCs were WAY below ceiling in FY25. We are starting FY26 without the usual backlog of work. The shutdown makes a bad situation even worse. Word is that massive RIF plans are being finalized now and will occur right before the holidays. VPs for research, talent, finance, Arroyo have all suddenly resigned in the past few months. CEO says absolutely nothing to us and there’s no strategy outside of his sandbox that is the new AI division funded by philanthropy. Nobody seems to like working here anymore. It’s horrible.

All of this sounds about right, but where is before the holidays coming from? What’re they waiting for?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the Govt shutdown affecting work at FFRDC's?

All of RAND’s FFRDCs were WAY below ceiling in FY25. We are starting FY26 without the usual backlog of work. The shutdown makes a bad situation even worse. Word is that massive RIF plans are being finalized now and will occur right before the holidays. VPs for research, talent, finance, Arroyo have all suddenly resigned in the past few months. CEO says absolutely nothing to us and there’s no strategy outside of his sandbox that is the new AI division funded by philanthropy. Nobody seems to like working here anymore. It’s horrible.

All of this sounds about right, but where is before the holidays coming from? What’re they waiting for?

Executive indecisiveness?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the Govt shutdown affecting work at FFRDC's?

All of RAND’s FFRDCs were WAY below ceiling in FY25. We are starting FY26 without the usual backlog of work. The shutdown makes a bad situation even worse. Word is that massive RIF plans are being finalized now and will occur right before the holidays. VPs for research, talent, finance, Arroyo have all suddenly resigned in the past few months. CEO says absolutely nothing to us and there’s no strategy outside of his sandbox that is the new AI division funded by philanthropy. Nobody seems to like working here anymore. It’s horrible.

All of this sounds about right, but where is before the holidays coming from? What’re they waiting for?

Executive indecisiveness?

Pathetic if true.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the Govt shutdown affecting work at FFRDC's?

All of RAND’s FFRDCs were WAY below ceiling in FY25. We are starting FY26 without the usual backlog of work. The shutdown makes a bad situation even worse. Word is that massive RIF plans are being finalized now and will occur right before the holidays. VPs for research, talent, finance, Arroyo have all suddenly resigned in the past few months. CEO says absolutely nothing to us and there’s no strategy outside of his sandbox that is the new AI division funded by philanthropy. Nobody seems to like working here anymore. It’s horrible.

Wow. That sounds really bad. But you left already, right? You're not just going to wait to be laid off from a place you hate?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the Govt shutdown affecting work at FFRDC's?

All of RAND’s FFRDCs were WAY below ceiling in FY25. We are starting FY26 without the usual backlog of work. The shutdown makes a bad situation even worse. Word is that massive RIF plans are being finalized now and will occur right before the holidays. VPs for research, talent, finance, Arroyo have all suddenly resigned in the past few months. CEO says absolutely nothing to us and there’s no strategy outside of his sandbox that is the new AI division funded by philanthropy. Nobody seems to like working here anymore. It’s horrible.

Wow. That sounds really bad. But you left already, right? You're not just going to wait to be laid off from a place you hate?

I’m waiting for the Board to fire our terrible CEO.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How is the Govt shutdown affecting work at FFRDC's?

All of RAND’s FFRDCs were WAY below ceiling in FY25. We are starting FY26 without the usual backlog of work. The shutdown makes a bad situation even worse. Word is that massive RIF plans are being finalized now and will occur right before the holidays. VPs for research, talent, finance, Arroyo have all suddenly resigned in the past few months. CEO says absolutely nothing to us and there’s no strategy outside of his sandbox that is the new AI division funded by philanthropy. Nobody seems to like working here anymore. It’s horrible.

Wow. That sounds really bad. But you left already, right? You're not just going to wait to be laid off from a place you hate?

It's time for the CEO to leave. He is a political liability, a compliance risk, and he already lost $150 million in a single year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

I hear some senior people are now double-hatting...as they RIF staff. So sad...CNA is not a big organization like RAND or Mitre. only about 600 employees from all levels.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.