The National Security Agency recently achieved its goals to shed around 2,000 people from its workforce this year, according to three people familiar with the spy agency's posture. The people spoke on the condition of anonymity because the milestone has not been made public. The reductions include a mix of civilian employees who were terminated, voluntarily left or took deferred resignation offers, where they agree to leave government service early while still being paid for a set time period.
Not long ago, I was talking to an old friend and China analyst about the need for Intelligence Community (IC) analysts to spend significantly more time looking at themselves and their own agencies, processes, procedures, habits, biases, etc.-in other words, to be more introspective. I thought this an uncontroversial assertion as it has beenwell established in management literature that healthy organizations have robust introspective proclivities.
The provision establishes tax deductions and tax-free reimbursements for eligible moving expenses for IC employees and certain political appointees, a measure aimed at preventing them from being unfairly taxed on money they spend to cover mandatory moving costs.
