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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In the end, Big, Beautiful RIFS[/quote]

Largely, no, because the ceilings are still being filled with task orders….[/quote]

The President's Budget for FY26 has these cuts, the task orders are filling the FY25 ceilings.

As always... whether/how much the Budget reflects the actual Appropriations remains to be seen.  Assuming the Budget reflects FY26 reality... and ceilings remain similar to FY25, task orders will have to significantly increase or FY26 RIFs will happen.

FWIW... Having been on an IDIQ-only FFRDC for decades...  Cuts to core affect the essential relationship between the Feds and the FFRDC.  1) Core allows a level of FFRDC independence that task orders against ceiling don't.  With task orders, just try to tell the Federal project lead he/she's wrong, try going over the lead's head, ...; and 2) Core provides a core stable workforce that really understand the Sponsor's overall needs, task order staff rely on that core expertise, with augmentation for project specific needs, without core, FFRDCs really just become glorified IDIQ commercial contractors with loss of longer term Sponsor understanding.  3) Depending on the Sponsor, core allows the FFRDC stable workforce to provide Sponsor continuity that, given the rate of Sponsor turnover, the Sponsor Agencies themselves don't have.[/quote]

This is the best explanation I’ve read in a long time![/quote]

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