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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][quote=Anonymous]Some FFRDCS (Mitre we are looking at you) stray too far from their core mission by taking non-gov money. This is very different than what you described.[/quote]

What are you talking about “taking non-gov money”? I’ve worked at MITRE for a long time and provide leadership to staff that work across hundreds of projects. If what you write is happening, it’s so rare that I couldn’t give you an example of it.[/quote]

Example that is fairly obvious is Mitre monetizing its ATT&CK cyber stuff with revenue from commercial cyber firms. [/quote]

That is very obvious. Mitre is shady.[/quote]

Stop beating up on MITRE. Other FFRDCs do far worse things than ATT&CK. Case in point: https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ai-doomers-have-infiltrated-washington/

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It's funny that the anti-MITRE people are not at MITRE, but the anti-RAND people are still at RAND. You know you're allowed to leave, right? [/quote]

I have no clue who is anti-what here, but I work at RAND and will chime in. There are parts that are doing very very well. If you work on topics that the CEO cares about like China and AI the place has never been better. That’s where donor $ is going toward.

If you don’t work on those topics, nobody at the top really seems to care. It’s demoralizing. But that is what you get when the CEO only wants to run 10% of the company. That is probably why RANDites seem anti-RAND IRL or on this forum.

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But the difference is also that at other organizations, if you don't like the leadership and direction, you leave. At RAND, people stay and then complain. [/quote]

Maybe they complain bc they want the board to actually do something about the mess the new leadership has created? Several leaders at RAND have no business running such a large organization. 
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It's been more than two years. Wouldn't it feel better to go someplace better aligned with your values rather than to trash your organization in public?[/quote]

This has nothing to do with values. It's about mismanagement.
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Regardless, it's weird that people just stay there. Leave! There's a whole world out there. [/quote]

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