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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The recently departed Mitre CEO wanted to grow the company with non-FFRDC work, one guesses this was so he could justify a pay raise for himself.  [b]And the FFRDC work at Mitre was expanding at the same time[/b] he was doing this. [/quote]

Jason took the FFRDC's for granted, which is why Mark was brought in.[/quote]

Respectfully, brought in to do what? Reactive RIFs with the CFO, CEO  & new VP of Ops? Anyone can do that[/quote]

It seems like he was brought in to RIF people.[/quote]

Agreed. In all orgs RIFs are easy to implement and bring immediate financial relief (CFOs love them). It's a quick fix where everyone (except the well-connected) is expendable. [/quote]Mark started Labor Day - several months before the election.  If the Dems had won, modulo getting rid of [b]the idiocy that was Engenuity[/b], it's unlikely that any/most of the RIFs would have happened.

As far as quick fix, as an operator of FFRDCs, MITRE's staffing levels are nearly entirely dependent on Federal decisions to rely on FFRDC staff for whatever.  As of November, MITRE's staffing levels matched MITRE work under the Biden Administration.  The Trump Administration/DOGE/Palantir buddies/3025/... decided to trash a number of Federal IT programs with knock-on effects on MITRE work and, in some cases, explicitly targeted FFRDC funding.  Result was a large number of MITRE staff with no work/no likelihood of new work in any financially absorbable timeframe.  Other than RIFs as a tool to match staff to work, what precisely do you think Mark/CFO/... could have done?[/quote]

What is Engenuity?[/quote]

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