Hiring Freeze

[Guest123456]

Is the DoD affected by the executive order freezing the hiring of federal civilian employees? And could the SMART scholarship decisions potentially get affected by this?

[Guest]

No to both, the DoD is exempt from the hiring freeze.

[Guest123456789]

Actually, with recent order around 21st of Feb, DoD is going through a firing of probationary employees + planned hiring freeze soon after. Could it affect SMART? Possibly. Who knows. There's a lot of changing information relating to executive orders/direction from leadership at DoD that any attempts to predict its impact is honestly just pure speculation. Just have to sit and wait lol