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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Typo - meant OMB...[/quote]And Palantir's DOGEies.  https://www.18theses.com/
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Some odd things about that.  First, the person never figured out that UARCs exist — or that the UARCs all do systems engineering and prototyping.  Second, they did not seem to figure out that one of Mitre’s biggest competitors is JHU/APL, which is a UARC.  Third, they don’t seem to understand that many UARCs are visibly larger than the smaller FFRDCs.  Most UARCs have 1000+ employees, but some FFRDCs (e.g., CMU/SEi, CNA) are below 500 employees,

Also, they did not figure out that the only way to really shrink the size of the overall FFRDC+UARC community is to lower the per-FFRDC/per-UARC ceiling on the total aggregate funding they can receive each FY.  Cutting the handful of line items in the budget has much less impact than cutting the ceiling would have, because the vast majority of FFRDC/UARC work is done on project funds that gets sent via no-bid task orders using the applicable FFRDC/UARC prime contract. Ceilings actually went UP this year, FY 25, as did the authorized “exclusions from ceiling”, meaning more work is going to FFRDCs and more is going to UARCs.

Maybe the real story is that all these FFRDC changes and cuts are just for show, just marketing, and changing the landscape is not the real goal?[/quote]

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