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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Agreed and the same to MITRE. Adrift at sea and the nepotism won't save them. Very sad[/quote]

The massive internal management issues and bloat aside, the government needs to decide how they want to use mitre. If gov doesn't want tough answers to hard problems then the corporation will continue to whither...how long can it last in this state? [/quote]

Mitre moved deeply into the generic SETA space under Jason's "growth no matter what" policy. That has been their biggest single problem. Their offerings just aren't that different from Amentum or ManTech these days - with only a very few genuine technical SMEs as exceptions.

Mitre needs to shrink, hire fewer new grads, and hire more genuine technical experts to get back to their original competency - expertise that is not available elsewhere. [/quote]

They moved into SETA category because their own employees were not bringing anything new by being scientific advisors and SETA is the only category they saw growth in. Most of the staff is outdated in technology and still spends majority of their time writing reports. I had to let 3 guys go from MITRe because their bosses would compel them to write reports and waste time. [/quote]

Did you give them feedback? Did you give them tasks that were more relevant to you? I keep seeing posts on this thread about people being dissatisfied with the work. It is up to the government to write appropriate task orders and scope the work in alignment with their needs. Otherwise it's a huge waste of time for everyone.[/quote]

The government did it correctly. The FFRDC mostly assigned kids without experience plus one older non-expert (who kept chest thumping about being a SME). They chose not to course correct after receiving feedback. They lost the work and were replaced by highly-qualified experts from elsewhere. [/quote]

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