Within the Public Sector, leadership promotes only those who kiss up, completely disregarding what will make the company more functional and earn sponsors' respect and drive more work. Staff is being blamed for the company's inability to secure new projects and accused of being intransigent or refusing to adapt. Delusional ideas that MITRE is uniquely positioned to solve the toughest issues, when the company gets lapped regularly by US Digital Services, Booz, and smaller companies. Instead of doing the hard work to see how MITRE can adapt and change, it goes all-in on a 1990s mind set and is doomed to years of regression before the Board clues in and cleans house. Why they allowed a CEO failure to determine his own exit date is beyond inexcusable. The company has earned its bad public reputation and good staff will be hard to come by, further making its self-imposed problems even more entrenched.