Keith’s note: Sources report that the internal NASA Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process has included discussion of a possible RIF in FY 2025. The budget is that bad folks. Stay tuned. Maybe Senator Administrator Bill Nelson can enlighten everyone as to how bad the NASA budget situation really is. NASA is not going to be doing a robust Artemis program or MSR or many of other big new things it wants to do in a budget environment with RIFs. RIFs can be brutal, pit one employee against another, decimate morale, and prompt people to find a more secure job.

EPA to set aside $12 million for buyouts in coming months, Washington Post “The Environmental Protection Agency plans to set aside $12 million for buyouts and early retirements in coming months, as part of an effort to begin “reshaping” the agency’s workforce under the Trump administration.” Other Agencies May Follow EPA’s Lead in Offering Incentives “While final budget decisions are to be negotiated in the months ahead with Congress, a […]

White House tells agencies to come up with a plan to shrink their workforces, Washington Post “The White House on Wednesday will instruct all federal agencies to submit a plan by June 30 to shrink their civilian workforces, offering the first details on how the Trump administration aims to reduce the size and scope of the government. A governmentwide hiring freeze the president imposed on Jan. 23 will be lifted […]

Firing federal workers isn’t as easy as Trump makes it seem in his budget, Washington Post “Under President Trump’s budget proposal, federal employees at many agencies may need to acquaint themselves with a lately dormant but still much-feared term: Reduction in Force. If Trump’s budget is enacted into law, it would hike defense spending by $54 billion – and pay for it with an equal cut in domestic spending at […]

Trump budget expected to seek historic contraction of federal workforce, Washington Post “Preliminary budget documents have also shown that Trump advisers have also looked at cutting the Environmental Protection Agency’s staff by about 20 percent and tightening the Commerce Department’s budget by about 18 percent, which would impact climate change research and weather satellite programs, among other things. Trump and his advisers have said that they believe the federal workforce […]

Revenge of the bureaucrats, Politico “The Trump personnel team led by Kay Coles James and Linda Springer, both also Bush alumni, has broad goals to reduce the size of domestic agencies while slightly bolstering the defense workforce, say sources close to the transition. Aides are also mulling a process, known as “reduction in force,” that would allow the new administration to skirt the civil service’s complicated rules for hiring and […]

NASA Review Committee Mulls Field Center Consolidation, Space News “NASA says its 10 field centers employ about 18,000 civil servants and four times as many contractors. These centers, some of which predate the 1958 National Aeronautics and Space Act that created NASA, house a variety of specialized scientific and engineering facilities, many of which are underutilized today. “I would be less than honest if I told you we need everything […]

Latest round of NASA cutting threatens 600 jobs in Huntsville, Huntsville Times “The latest round of NASA downsizing is threatening another 600 Huntsville jobs, officials said Thursday. How many will actually be laid off isn’t clear, but is expected to be fewer than the number warned in accordance with federal law. U.S. Rep. Mo Brooks, R-Huntsville, said Friday that NASA leaders told Alabama lawmakers three weeks ago that upcoming layoffs […]

Report: Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Bill, 2012 “The bill includes a provision that repeals existing prohibitions on the implementation of Reductions in Force or other involuntary separations.”

If this isn’t a head up for a RIF then I don’t know what one would look like. R – SOL:OUTPLACEMENT/HEADHUNTER SERVICES FOR NASA HEADQUARTERS COMMERCE BUSINESS DAILY ISSUE OF APRIL 2,1996 PSA#1564 NASA Headquarters, Acquisition Division, Washington, DC 20546 Attn:CWA/Karen H. Stepka R — OUTPLACEMENT/HEADHUNTER SERVICES FOR NASA HEADQUARTERS SOL W-D-14715 DUE 042496 POC Karen H. Stepka tel: 202/358-0395/Karen McDonald, 202/358-0402 NASA intends to issue a RFO (Request for […]