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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Mitre was a powerhouse only a few years ago and now it's laying off folks and struggling to keep their buildings. Jesus.[/quote]

Not really because Mitre grew too quickly and hired more staff than positions open. Also, in its early years, Mitre hired very technical engineers, SMEs and specialized staff but as it grew and evolved, Mitre took on similar work as for-profit government contractors and hired from the same pool of candidates (contract staff and former feds). But, as PPs pointed out, FFRDC staff carry a lot of overhead to perform similar work.
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This. A former colleague was a Fed and part of his job duties was limiting the number of inexperienced new grads, who knew relatively little, that Mitre assigned to their part of the DoD.

Mitre originally had a minimal number of new grads and primarily hired genuine experts in various fields, and then had those experts actually doing work in their field.  This started to fall apart in the Defense boom of the late 1980s when Mitre shifted to hiring tons of new grads and a surprisingly high number of “PhDs” from either no-name colleges or online PhD programs (rather than a PhD from VT or UMCP or similar quality universities).  Yes, there still are some very good people at Mitre and many today have legitimate PhDs with an actual dissertation and refereed publications as a grad student  — but Mitre does not today have the same overall quality as it did back in the 1970s or early 1980s.

MIT/LL has not grown as much or as quickly as Mitre, and also has done a better job of maintaining overall quality.[/quote]

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