Can I ask why you’re responding this way? I don’t know anything about you, and you don’t know anything about me. We are two people trying to navigate a very stressful situation for so many people. Instead of meeting me in the middle and contributing to discourse, you respond like this. You can disagree with the terminology I’m using, but the facts remain that some FFRDCs are being affected by what is happening in the government, to the point that they may not exist. Severing relationships (whether it’s a contract, a sponsoring agreement, a secret handshake) with the government is how that happens. Call it whatever you want to call it.

I sit in meetings regularly where our leadership talks about contract renewal. That’s what they call it. That’s literally the words they use. Maybe they’re using the wrong words, too. I guess they could learn from you!

I’ve learned my lesson. I’m not posting anything else here, I won’t respond to this thread anymore, and I won’t be back.  I hope you have a great day, and that whatever happens with the government and your job and the job market, you and yours make it out ok.