[lolsowrong]

Program Managers are fixed term - up to 3 2 year terms (though Director Tompkins generally doesn’t like PMs to be around longer than 4 years - see section 1101 of the Strom Thurmond NDAA for more details about the hiring authority).

I don’t know about the admin vs director types split you’re talking about (at least in the PM ranks). Office directors generally provided top cover and some very sweeping research directions, but as a PM it was your job to come up with research programs that were roughly compatible, convince the office director it was, and then manage the technical execution with the performers and doing dog and pony shows when the pentagon called.

[samstave]

How ironic that Strom Thurmond had anything to do with any limits on tenure for such posts...

This guy was in grifting senate/etc for 48!!!!! YEARS...

https://www.ranker.com/list/facts-about-strom-thurmond/micha... (I do not know if these are true - but its not the first time hearing about some of these allegations)