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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CNA is also top-heavy...worthless.[/quote]

I love how this one (I assume) disgruntled ex-CNAer periodically tries to jump into the middle of the RAND/Mitre bashing.

“Guuuys! Come on! CNA sucks too!”

“Who?”[/quote]

Are you a CNA bootlicker? Current IPR VP making over $250k/year, with high bonuses, can't market IPR work as a former FED even after your restrictions have expired?

The FFRDC portion is safe/sound for now as the Navy/Marine Corps requested changes at the FFRDC. IPR still has a high overhead rate.[/quote]

Salaries are here in case you were wondering:
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/541558882
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RAND is hiring for a "Salesforce Business Analyst Administrator" (whatever that means) who may earn more than a "Research Lead - AI Cyber Testing & Evaluation" Totally misplaced priorities.
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The salary range for the research lead is $137,000 - $246,600 and $120,900 - $180,300 for the Salesforce role. "May" is doing a lot of work there. [/quote]

Rand exec salaries 
https://projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/organizations/951958142[/quote]

RAND leadership is succeeding in the difficult maneuver of setting money on fire while simultaneously high-fiving their sponsors goodbye and tripping over a pile of pink slips right in front of a news camera. This success demands a high salary![/quote]

Two views exist. One is the idea that seasoned leaders secretly mismanaged RAND for decades despite delivering years of steady growth while maintaining a strong brand (including during Trump’s first term). This view is absurd.

The second view is the brutal truth that an unqualified CEO, with zero experience running a large organization, took reckless risks at the worst possible moment. This rapid collapse isn't a legacy issue; it is the direct result of current, gross incompetence.

RAND’s current CEO will try hard to reframe the first view but the second is clearly supported by the evidence at hand.[/quote]

A third possible view is that the current RAND leadership do NOT want to run an FFRDC, but instead want to transform RAND into an independent think-tank (such as Brookings, Heritage, CSBA, PEW, or whichever else) that is not reliant on Federal funding.  This also seems consistent with the externally visible facts.[/quote]

Doesn't RAND get almost all of its funding from the Federal government? That's like the CEO of Ford deciding to ditch the car business to make sneakers.[/quote]

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