Per a memo obtained by FedScoop, the NSF already started a reduction-in-force of its senior executive service and is downsizing its temporary workforce.

The support also comes as House lawmakers introduced a bill that would amend the National Quantum Initiative Act to add a “sandbox” for the tech at NIST.

The existing national plan was initially issued under the first Trump administration and has been updated twice since.

Sethuraman Panchanathan has been at the science research agency since the first Trump administration.

Sethuraman Panchanathan has been at the science research agency since the first Trump administration.

Associates of the Elon Musk- led group recently showed up at the National Science Foundation.

Associates of the Elon Musk- led group recently showed up at the National Science Foundation.

A memo from United States Citizenship and Immigration Services raises concerns about the extent to which the Elon Musk-led group could access personal information related to immigration.

Legislation to establish a full-scale NAIRR at the National Science Foundation has been reintroduced in the House.

The human capital agency updated guidance to say it’s “not directing agencies to take any specific performance-based actions.”