Last week management held a big meeting to inform us that somewhere around 20% of the Boulder SBIRS staff will be gone by the end of the year. The briefing was peppered with typical buzzwords like “lean operations” and “new opportunities,” but to co-opt an old Zeppelin title, the song remains the same: People holding the 160-some targeted positions can probably expect to be canned.
Apparently the cuts are already in progress with some people in “panic mode” now. We expect the process to accelerate towards the end state quickly around the August time frame after Block 10 delivery is complete.
Yay.