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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far, over 1,000 MITRE employees laid off and more RIFs might come in summer/fall. The"new normal" under Trump.[/quote]

No, Mitre always laid off employees when work levels were low... it was quietly handled and not obvious. I was laid off apx. 10+ years ago, along with several colleagues, because Mitre couldn't find me a suitable assignment that wasn't 30-50+ miles away. I could not commute from NoVA to sites in Maryland with strict school and daycare pickup schedules. Mitre called me back within a few weeks to ask me to return to a local assignment but I had already started another job (that I still hold today).

As PP said, Mitre recently hired too many employees. Unfortunately some long-time staff were let go in favor of the younger and cheaper... but that is a topic for another thread.[/quote]These RIFs aren't that, they're due to Trump/DOGE impacts on specific Sponsor agencies.  In two months, Trump/DOGE have "saved" billions by trashing IRS IT, CMS, etc. - Cutting Federal IT staff by tens of percentage points, wiping out multi-million-dollar modernization programs, ...  Whether we believe those programs are necessary or not, they're not coming back any time soon.  Commercial contractors and MITRE FFRDC staff supporting that Federal staff and those programs are just collateral damage.[/quote]

I think both can be true. MITRE would be much more resilient to Trump/DOGE if Jason wasn’t doing foolish things to grow the alt-FFRDC business.[/quote]I agree that Jason was an idiot, and the Board went along with it.  But, the vast majority of the current RIFs and the next round(s) would have occurred no matter what MITRE did. 
 The DOGE madness would have Trumped any MITRE positioning.  Commercial contractors didn't have Jason, but the same things happening to them.[/quote]

Different poster. I respectfully disagree. I don't think Jason helped MITRE prepare for these times at all. Also, comparing MITRE too ommercial contractors is apples versus oranges since they are totally different businesses.
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