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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My take is that a lot of these FFRDCs are just sucking up budgets w/o bringing extra value. A lot has happened which require change and big 4s and FFRDC are the one that need to cut the fat the most. [/quote]
Don't disagree at all. The idea behind FFRDCs isn't bad, [b]the recent implementation has been pretty bad[/b].[/quote]

How so?[/quote]
Poor choice of words, maybe "things I've seen after a few years"

Worked at two FFRDCs over the years. Maybe my view is biased on what I've seen. At the core each was the SME on the topic that's being worked, helping the government solve the hard problem, or help with acquisition, or to evaluate the performer solution in an unbiased way, create regulations for things like AI. This is awesome and much needed.

At each, work ebbs and flows and you don't always need all that expertise. So then what happens? Papers are published for the sake of publishing papers. Overhead dollars are spend on building tools the government may need one day. Etc.

I get it, you have to run a business... but... feels like a huge waste[/quote]

To put it more bluntly -- work is made up to keep the SMEs employeed. The government often didn't ask, didn't want and/or didn't need that work. And that's not the intended vision of FFRDCs.[/quote]

Philanthropy is the only viable funding source for tackling long-term, cutting edge, existential problems. FFRDCs are on life support.
[/quote]Philanthropy spawned Project 2025.  What we need is a viable Federal Government.[/quote]

Rumor is that Jason was at a GER offsite in San Francisco during our last round of layoffs at RAND.
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