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| 19 Oct 2025 | |
| Written by J.B. Wogan | |
| United States of America | |
| Blogs |
Data Foundation's Open-Access 2025 Shutdown RIF Impacts Tracker
The Data Foundation is monitoring the reduction-in-force (RIF) notices that started shortly after the government shutdown in October 2025, with a particular focus on impacts to data, evidence, and science infrastructure. As a public service, we are providing an open-access tracker as a centralized source of information about RIFs affecting federal workers across agencies.
Organizations and individuals can contribute to our ongoing analysis through the SAFE-Track platform, which provides secure and anonymous reporting of evidence ecosystem impacts.
We continue to update our tracking as information becomes available and can be verified. Note that early reports often require additional validation and may sometimes be inaccurate.
For earlier analyses of changes to the nation's data and evidence ecosystem in the first nine months of 2025, check out our monthly Evidence Capacity Pulse Reports.
