RAND's CEO brought a lot of bad press from most of his initiatives pretty much since his first year in the job...

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/10/13/open-philanthropy-funding-ai-policy-00121362

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/15/billionaire-backed-think-tank-played-key-role-in-bidens-ai-order-00132128

https://www.politico.com/news/2023/12/26/ai-rand-congress-00133193

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily/2023/12/18/whos-really-driving-ai-policy-00132306

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ai-doomers-have-infiltrated-washington/

https://slate.com/technology/2023/11/openai-sam-altman-ai-microsoft-eacc-effective-altruism.html

https://letter.palladiummag.com/p/early-article-the-failed-strategy

https://nypost.com/2025/08/25/us-news/commerce-secretary-howard-lutnick-voids-illegal-7-4b-agreement-to-pay-biden-staffed-nonprofit-for-semiconductor-research/

https://www.foxnews.com/politics/meet-ex-biden-appointee-who-could-be-major-force-against-trumps-ai-agenda-doomsayer

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/09/technology/nvidia-china-chip-sales-ai-doomerism.html

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).[/quote]

That makes 2,000+ people I'm the last 18 months. That's over 20% of the company. Crazy[/quote]

That’s so awful. RAND will surpass this achievement. [/quote]

i do not work for rand but it sure seems from the outside that people who work there hate it

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).[/quote]

That makes 2,000+ people I'm the last 18 months. That's over 20% of the company. Crazy[/quote]

That’s so awful. RAND will surpass this achievement.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).[/quote]

That makes 2,000+ people I'm the last 18 months. That's over 20% of the company. Crazy[/quote]

Holy cow!

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).[/quote]

That makes 2,000+ people I'm the last 18 months. That's over 20% of the company. Crazy

RAND got rid of their Education and it’s Social Economic divisions.

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Anonymous wrote:I’m a former mitre employee now working for a large DoD / IC contractor PM in a large CIO shop. Mitre consultants come and go but few of them stick around and many churn out high level deliverables that were turned over to my team to refine or rewrite. None of them were specialists or SMEs. Mitre lost its competitive edge years ago.

Shame on the sponsor for not giving feedback through CPAR. Some gov sponsors hire MITRE and then don’t bother to manage the contract.

Shame on MITRE's very expensive management for bot doing their job. The current woes at MITRE were predictable given the leadership deficit. I agree MITRE lost its competitive edge years ago.

Shame on Jason

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m a former mitre employee now working for a large DoD / IC contractor PM in a large CIO shop. Mitre consultants come and go but few of them stick around and many churn out high level deliverables that were turned over to my team to refine or rewrite. None of them were specialists or SMEs. Mitre lost its competitive edge years ago.

Shame on the sponsor for not giving feedback through CPAR. Some gov sponsors hire MITRE and then don’t bother to manage the contract.

Shame on MITRE's very expensive management for bot doing their job. The current woes at MITRE were predictable given the leadership deficit. I agree MITRE lost its competitive edge years ago.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?

We're doing just fine at IDA.

I don't totally agree with that... lots of people panicking about the new calendar year.

Didn't they already lay off some people this year, too?

many of them were rehired or had the offer to be rehired

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?

We're doing just fine at IDA.

I don't totally agree with that... lots of people panicking about the new calendar year.

What division are you in? My director told us we have a backlog of work and hit ceiling this FY.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?

We're doing just fine at IDA.

I don't totally agree with that... lots of people panicking about the new calendar year.

Didn't they already lay off some people this year, too?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?

We're doing just fine at IDA.

I don't totally agree with that... lots of people panicking about the new calendar year.

Anonymous wrote:I’m a former mitre employee now working for a large DoD / IC contractor PM in a large CIO shop. Mitre consultants come and go but few of them stick around and many churn out high level deliverables that were turned over to my team to refine or rewrite. None of them were specialists or SMEs. Mitre lost its competitive edge years ago.

Shame on the sponsor for not giving feedback through CPAR. Some gov sponsors hire MITRE and then don’t bother to manage the contract.

[quote=Anonymous]I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?[/quote]

Another MITRE RIF on Oct 6 (500 staff).

Anonymous wrote:I know a lot of the conversation is about RAND, but will there be other layoffs in the new fiscal year for other FFRDCs?

We're doing just fine at IDA.