Leidos, MITRE making layoffs in Virginia

Two organizations serving the Department of Energy’s weapons complex, one a multibillion-dollar contractor and the other a non-profit research entity, will soon reduce staff levels at offices in Virginia.

Reston, Va.-based Leidos, which has several DOE contracts and leads a partnership providing services at the Hanford Site in Washington state, will be cutting its northern Virginia office staffing levels by 29 people on May 30.

MITRE Corp., which has provided research for DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, will terminate 442 people on June 3. The MITRE website describes the organization as a non-profit that operates federally-funded research centers. It has a major office center in McLean, Va.

Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) announcements were recently filed with a Virginia Department of Workforce Development and Advancement website.  WARN notices, under federal law typically require advance notice when businesses of a certain size shut down a facility or make a mass layoff.

“Due to program changes, we unfortunately are eliminating some positions in Virginia,” a Leidos spokesperson said Monday in response to an email inquiry from Exchange Monitor. “Our intent is to reassign as many of our colleagues as possible to open positions we have in the state or in Maryland and Washington, D.C.”

News of both layoffs were reported April 4 by FFX Now, a local news service covering Fairfax County, Va.