Palantir’s CTO views both FFRDCs and UARCs as direct competitors. Google “18 Theses”. He wants them to shrink substantially in headcount & revenue ceiling — or go away completely. He also dislikes all of the Federal civil service labs.

Another goal of this crew is to break Mitre into several different companies, each smaller, which has happened once before. In the 1990s, Mitre spun out MitreTek due to USG pressure. MitreTek now is called Noblis.

The connection between Musk/DoGE, Palantir, and Anduril is Peter Thiel. So it is all connected together.

Anonymous wrote:Mitre has announced layoffs are coming.

Not true

Mitre has announced layoffs are coming.

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Anonymous wrote:Negative comments about MITRE are not true and wonder what is motivating them. Full of hardworking, thoughtful people that care about their work.

Who are you kidding?

Not helpful... somebody here has an axe to grind about MITRE

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any FFRDCs that are safe?

Probably not. That said, Mitre is by far the largest operator of FFRDCs so it is the most visible target.

+1 RAND is a dumpster fire right now. Ted Cruz is investigating us, lots of stop work orders, new CEO is surveilling employees to prevent leaks.

100% on RAND being a dumpster fire. The new division on “global risks” is just an advocacy arm for tech donors that creates junk reports.

Anonymous wrote:Are there any FFRDCs that are safe?

no

Anonymous wrote:Negative comments about MITRE are not true and wonder what is motivating them. Full of hardworking, thoughtful people that care about their work.

Who are you kidding?

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Anonymous wrote:Are there any FFRDCs that are safe?

Probably not. That said, Mitre is by far the largest operator of FFRDCs so it is the most visible target.

+1 RAND is a dumpster fire right now. Ted Cruz is investigating us, lots of stop work orders, new CEO is surveilling employees to prevent leaks.

Anonymous wrote:Are there any FFRDCs that are safe?

Probably not. That said, Mitre is by far the largest operator of FFRDCs so it is the most visible target.

Are there any FFRDCs that are safe?

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Anonymous wrote:Lots on instability at the Center for Enterprise Modernization due to the war on Treasury/IRS.

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This is referring to one of the FFRDCs that MITRE operates that supports Treasury/IRS.

Anonymous wrote:Lots on instability at the Center for Enterprise Modernization due to the war on Treasury/IRS.

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Lots on instability at the Center for Enterprise Modernization due to the war on Treasury/IRS.

I use to work at NASA JPL and can confirm it’s imploding.

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Anonymous wrote:Any insight into whether JHU’s APL has been impacted yet re: layoffs, budget cuts etc? Would this be a bad place for a federal scientist in danger of being RIF’d to pursue employment?

I have no specific info but I certainly wouldn't go to a UARC.

Why?

Because they either get caught up Palantir's war on orgs that compete with industry for software development or the general anti- any contract that ends in a report sentiment.

I work at APL and we are loaded with $

So was Booz.

Booz is fine.

That's certainly a hot take.