NOAA Announces It Will Make Temporary Hires To Fill Holes In Field Offices And For National Weather Service

[hatrack]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration said Monday it will hire for “mission-critical field positions” amid expert warnings that the National Weather Service has been cut too sharply just as hurricane season arrives.

An agency spokesperson said in a statement the positions will be advertised under a temporary reprieve from the federal government’s widespread hiring pause “to further stabilize frontline operations.” NOAA also said they are filling some field office openings by reassigning staff, including some temporary hires.

The agency didn’t say how many jobs would be posted and refused to provide more details.

Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency cuts gutted NWS and NOAA — which provide daily weather forecasts, up-to-the-minute severe storm warnings, climate monitoring and extreme weather tracking — earlier this year. Hundreds of weather forecasters were fired and other federal NOAA employees were put on probationary status in February, followed by a later round of more than 1,000 cuts at the agency. By April, nearly half of NWS forecast offices had 20% vacancy rates. The Federal Emergency Management Agency has also been affected.

EDIT

https://apnews.com/article/climate-noaa-weather-service-doge-storms-81414cef1eff76967fe0307a986c5d56

[bucolic_frolic]

1. what's next, retiree volunteers with $10 per week stipend? /nt

[hatrack]

2. Well, there's a 22-year old running the DHS terrorism hub, so yeah, why not?

When Thomas Fugate graduated from college last year with a degree in politics, he celebrated in a social media post about the exciting opportunities that lay beyond campus life in Texas. “Onward and upward!” he wrote, with an emoji of a rocket shooting into space. His career blastoff came quickly. A year after graduation, the 22-year-old with no apparent national security expertise is now a Department of Homeland Security official overseeing the government’s main hub for terrorism prevention, including an $18 million grant program intended to help communities combat violent extremism.

The White House appointed Fugate, a former Trump campaign worker who interned at the hard-right Heritage Foundation, to a Homeland Security role that was expanded to include the Center for Prevention Programs and Partnerships. Known as CP3, the office has led nationwide efforts to prevent hate-fueled attacks, school shootings and other forms of targeted violence.

Fugate’s appointment is the latest shock for an office that has been decimated since President Donald Trump returned to the White House and began remaking national security to give it a laser focus on immigration.

News of the appointment has trickled out in recent weeks, raising alarm among counterterrorism researchers and nonprofit groups funded by CP3. Several said they turned to LinkedIn for intel on Fugate — an unknown in their field — and were stunned to see a photo of “a college kid” with a flag pin on his lapel posing with a sharply arched eyebrow. No threat prevention experience is listed in his employment history.

EDIT

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-dhs-thomas-fugate-cp3-terrorism-prevention

[efhmc]

3. I predict this will happen more and more as time goes by.

With the emergency hires staying on.

[Lovie777]

4. What about qualification plus experience?...............

[hatrack]

5. Why bother when you can "do your own research"?

[getagrip_already]

6. They just need to use ai....

What could go wrong?

[Wuddles440]

7. Such a waste of taxpayers' money...

when the Slobfather can just take out his trusty, magical sharpie and move the threat back out to sea. And according to his sage-like wisdom, if that doesn't work you can always nuke it.