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[quote=Anonymous]I'm not in the know anymore, but MITRE DHS task orders could not be created without the larger HSSEDI contract with S&T. I don't believe a new contract with S&T has been (or will be) done. Existing task orders were permitted to run through a period one year after the expiration of the contract, which would be until March 2026. I suspect as some TOs end between March 2025 and 2026, the staff that were supporting them are taking on the bulk of the RIFs. That was a massive work program. With ridiculous bloat I might add.

There's another very large sponsor source of contracts within the National Security Engineering area that was upwards of $50 M, and the sponsor for it is one that is making a dramatic shift in how they think and operate. Many of those contracts ran September to September time frames, and there were probably 100 staff on them. I'm afraid that won't end well.

A problem I used to see at MITRE was putting people on a direct project even though the individual had zero applicable skills, all designed to keep them off the internal funds. The problem (or one of them) was that this then reduced the amount of direct project budget to actually do the contracted work. I long felt there was a management theory at mitre that not achieving the goals of a project was exactly what they wanted so they could justify extending the work.

Parts of mitre also promoted people WAY too easily, like they were trying to just get more expensive for the same work. I guess it would provide higher percentages of 'load' for VPs to give out to their friends internally, but the sponsors hated it.
/Rant for now [/quote]

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