Every unit of the agency — which sits within the Department of Homeland Security — may be affected, said two of the people, who, like others, were granted anonymity to speak openly about the planned cutbacks. Reduction-in-force notices and additional offers for staff to take a deferred resignation from the agency are expected to be extended early next week, one of the people added. The reduction-in-force notices, or RIFs, are considered official agency layoffs, and offer federal workers additional recourse following large-scale terminations.
Another source said that the cyber agency may be ending all threat hunting contracts with the private sector and said multiple contracts have already been cut. The additional reductions across the board, which may impact around 1,300 people, could also include internal agency staff handling threat hunting and vulnerability management, which significantly expands the focus of these reductions beyond previous cuts that focused on election security and disinformation, the source said.
The same source added that there are no plans on the administration’s part to provide funding to the private sector to help fill gaps left behind by the reduction of government workers within the agency. CISA is tasked with defending over a dozen critical infrastructure sectors defined by the U.S. government, which include transportation networks, nuclear reactors, election systems and government facilities.
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