Anonymous
Post 05/14/2025 20:05     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:MITRE has laid off approximately 1000 people in the last month, and rumors are flying about another RIF coming in a few weeks. Hard to watch so many great people go.


How many execs were laid off?
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2025 14:16     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:CNA has high overhead.

They’ve tried to lower it by getting rid of offices and combining or creating additional cost centers, etc.

This is happening to many FFRDCs.


RAND’s overhead is even higher than CNA. They have 20 Vice Presidents!

Anonymous
Post 05/14/2025 14:11     Subject: FFRDCs
CNA has high overhead.

They’ve tried to lower it by getting rid of offices and combining or creating additional cost centers, etc.

This is happening to many FFRDCs.
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2025 13:28     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:MITRE has laid off approximately 1000 people in the last month, and rumors are flying about another RIF coming in a few weeks. Hard to watch so many great people go.


This may seem excessive but MITRE, at times, has been an admin/top-heavy company. On the tasks I worked on--always on government sponsor sites--my rate was high because we had to "carry" a lot of overhead and several managers up the food chain who never showed up on site or participated in sponsor work (billed a portion of their work hours, rolled into task overhead). And despite all of this top-heavy support, management never helped me find new tasks when my project work ended... I had to scrounge for new work myself to keep myself "covered" at 40 hours/week.

--former MITRE employee of almost 10 years, now working as a contractor at a for-profit company (and much happier)


This sounds like me and I agree with it. I was a Project Leader of several projects in the HSSEDI FFRDC. Overhead costs were literally >40% of the project budgets.

The VP in charge there, YB, was only focused on revenue. And, only Senior Management (minimum DM and above) had direct access to any sort of internal R&D opportunities. (And even then, only if YB liked you or you could put on a fancy presentation, no matter how relevant, important or useful the R&D was.)

Anonymous
Post 05/14/2025 12:34     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:MITRE has laid off approximately 1000 people in the last month, and rumors are flying about another RIF coming in a few weeks. Hard to watch so many great people go.


This may seem excessive but MITRE, at times, has been an admin/top-heavy company. On the tasks I worked on--always on government sponsor sites--my rate was high because we had to "carry" a lot of overhead and several managers up the food chain who never showed up on site or participated in sponsor work (billed a portion of their work hours, rolled into task overhead). And despite all of this top-heavy support, management never helped me find new tasks when my project work ended... I had to scrounge for new work myself to keep myself "covered" at 40 hours/week.

--former MITRE employee of almost 10 years, now working as a contractor at a for-profit company (and much happier)
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2025 11:23     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:MITRE has laid off approximately 1000 people in the last month, and rumors are flying about another RIF coming in a few weeks. Hard to watch so many great people go.


Is it because their contract ended? Most of the FFRDCs are just doing reports and older folks are still involved with outdated technologies. I work very closely with them and they are very expensive, continue to do research analysis and want constant business from Govt. Why do we need so many FFRDCs?
Anonymous
Post 05/14/2025 01:08     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:You're getting crushed because you make software and you annoyed palantir. This isn't that complicated.


+1
DOGEes got to grift.


?
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 23:16     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:You're getting crushed because you make software and you annoyed palantir. This isn't that complicated.


+1
DOGEes got to grift.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 22:21     Subject: FFRDCs
MITRE has laid off approximately 1000 people in the last month, and rumors are flying about another RIF coming in a few weeks. Hard to watch so many great people go.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 16:33     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:You're getting crushed because you make software and you annoyed palantir. This isn't that complicated.


+1
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 09:15     Subject: FFRDCs
You're getting crushed because you make software and you annoyed palantir. This isn't that complicated.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 09:09     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:The irony is that Jason was using Battelle as his model for what Mitre should become. Battelle has a finger in every pie.


How so? Not trying to be mean, but I don’t quite follow.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 06:21     Subject: FFRDCs
The irony is that Jason was using Battelle as his model for what Mitre should become. Battelle has a finger in every pie.
Anonymous
Post 05/13/2025 01:20     Subject: FFRDCs
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Anonymous wrote:Have MITRE layoffs begun?


Begun in the sense that they’ve been announced, but I don’t know if people have been laid off or moved.


About 300 last week. Concentrated in staff areas that match DOGE's rampage through the Federal IT development programs.


Jason Providakes messed up the place.


Jason had all of these grand plans to "reinvent" Mitre. It all sounded great before Trump, but not it's a death spiral. I can't believe the board went along with his foolishness.
Two things - 1) Since the board did, when is it getting replaced... 2) Jason's fantasies were just like Barry's. Those who don't know history, are doomed to repeat it, those who do are doomed to repeat it with them.


these are all legitimate points
Anonymous
Post 05/11/2025 21:33     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Have MITRE layoffs begun?


Begun in the sense that they’ve been announced, but I don’t know if people have been laid off or moved.


About 300 last week. Concentrated in staff areas that match DOGE's rampage through the Federal IT development programs.


Jason Providakes messed up the place.


Jason had all of these grand plans to "reinvent" Mitre. It all sounded great before Trump, but not it's a death spiral. I can't believe the board went along with his foolishness.
Two things - 1) Since the board did, when is it getting replaced... 2) Jason's fantasies were just like Barry's. Those who don't know history, are doomed to repeat it, those who do are doomed to repeat it with them.