Anonymous
Post 06/23/2025 21:32     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:CNA is still hanging on. IPR division is slowly getting affected.


What is IPR?


IPR is the non-FFRDC business unit. The corporation has two halves, one FFRDC and one not. Both halves are non-profits.
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2025 21:26     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:CNA is still hanging on. IPR division is slowly getting affected.


What is IPR?
Anonymous
Post 06/23/2025 14:26     Subject: FFRDCs
CNA is still hanging on. IPR division is slowly getting affected.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 23:42     Subject: Re:FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I heard that MITRE would end the year a third of its size at the beginning of the year. I don't think those layoffs have happened yet.


That sounds excessive. Source?


friend who works there and who is very concerned with being employed by October


Tell your friend to update their resume and LinkedIn before they receive an email from their Dept. Head titled "Important Meeting - Please Attend" with a HR Business Partner on copy


I have a feeling that the layoffs at MITRE will be much deeper after October.
Anonymous
Post 06/22/2025 21:56     Subject: Re:FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I heard that MITRE would end the year a third of its size at the beginning of the year. I don't think those layoffs have happened yet.


That sounds excessive. Source?


friend who works there and who is very concerned with being employed by October


Tell your friend to update their resume and LinkedIn before they receive an email from their Dept. Head titled "Important Meeting - Please Attend" with a HR Business Partner on copy
Anonymous
Post 06/21/2025 08:40     Subject: FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:MITRE has been on a hiring spree (binge) but it no longer has the “research” project funding of the past to sustain folks on the bench or in between assignments. So many other reasons for the downsizing mentioned earlier in this thread.

I ended up leaving MITRE as the projects dried up so I had to look longer, harder and farther for sponsors/ projects when I’d roll off assignments.


This sounds like a similar situation at RAND. There are just no projects to sustain people on gap. Good people leave since they have exit options.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 23:14     Subject: FFRDCs
MITRE has been on a hiring spree (binge) but it no longer has the “research” project funding of the past to sustain folks on the bench or in between assignments. So many other reasons for the downsizing mentioned earlier in this thread.

I ended up leaving MITRE as the projects dried up so I had to look longer, harder and farther for sponsors/ projects when I’d roll off assignments.
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 14:20     Subject: FFRDCs
Any news about DOE FFRDCs?
Anonymous
Post 06/20/2025 10:32     Subject: Re:FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:I heard that MITRE would end the year a third of its size at the beginning of the year. I don't think those layoffs have happened yet.



Too late for many no matter what happens now.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 18:17     Subject: Re:FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I heard that MITRE would end the year a third of its size at the beginning of the year. I don't think those layoffs have happened yet.


That sounds excessive. Source?


We were instructed not to spend-out funds on studies and analysis this FY. I know offices are avoiding MITRE and RAND due to political issues.

Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 17:31     Subject: FFRDCs
One wonders about Battelle. They operate many FFRDCs, often as part of various partnerships.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 16:48     Subject: Re:FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I heard that MITRE would end the year a third of its size at the beginning of the year. I don't think those layoffs have happened yet.


That sounds excessive. Source?


friend who works there and who is very concerned with being employed by October


People not used to layoffs tend to embellish.


how many people work at MITRE in McLean? I can only find stats about the whole company.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 16:29     Subject: Re:FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I heard that MITRE would end the year a third of its size at the beginning of the year. I don't think those layoffs have happened yet.


That sounds excessive. Source?


friend who works there and who is very concerned with being employed by October


People not used to layoffs tend to embellish.
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 15:18     Subject: Re:FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I heard that MITRE would end the year a third of its size at the beginning of the year. I don't think those layoffs have happened yet.


That sounds excessive. Source?


friend who works there and who is very concerned with being employed by October
Anonymous
Post 06/19/2025 14:39     Subject: Re:FFRDCs
Anonymous wrote:I heard that MITRE would end the year a third of its size at the beginning of the year. I don't think those layoffs have happened yet.


That sounds excessive. Source?