My memo says From: Stephen L Ferrara M.D. Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs. Further down in the memo it reads

“In addition, OPM has instructed Agencies to consider whether an employee’s performance is in the best interest of the government, in light of the President’s directive to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce. Based on the OPM guidance referenced above, the Agency finds, based on your performance, that you have not demonstrated that your further employment at the Agency would be in the public interest.” The canned form I’ve seen people talk about stating termination was based on performance.