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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]RAND’s Army research unit took a huge hit in the Army’s budget - over 25M for FY26 - and if that holds they will need to lay off folks. And every round of cuts gets harder, starting with solid utility players and then folks with unique and hard to replace expertise. [/quote]

While Arroyo's core funding was reduced, it retained the ability to fund work with non-core money.[/quote]

This is true, but that is typically a slower process and there are no guarantees - bringing in add-on projects is hard, especially for units with less of an entrepreneurial culture, and there are a lot of hands out for limited studies funds. The same stresses that led the Army to cut Arroyo's core will persist into the year.  RAND will start the fiscal year with many staff on gap with no immediate prospects for work, and at a certain point it will be unaffordable. The Army risks losing a cadre of experts who provide objective and independent analyses.

Because of RAND's matrix model, people who do not deliver results do not last long. The first round of RIFs may have cut a few folks who could be considered marginal, but for the most part hit researchers who offered value to the projects that they were staffed on, who will deliver to whatever organizations are lucky enough to hire them.

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In under 3 years, RAND’s CEO really destroyed the place.[/quote]

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