The National Science Foundation is providing moving boxes for employees ousted from their offices to make room for the other agency taking over the science foundation’s Virginia headquarters.
NSF employees still don’t know where they’ll go next as the Department of Housing and Urban Development takes over the science foundation’s current building.
The science agency updated employees last week about plans for HUD to move in and to displace NSF workers on various floors of the building in Alexandria, Virginia, according to a staff memo obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News. The General Services Administration, which manages federal real estate, is considering its options for a new NSF headquarters nearby, the memo says.
The staff shuffle comes after the Trump administration announced in June that HUD would be moving into the NSF headquarters. HUD Secretary Scott Turner said the move would herald a new “golden age” for his department, but the move surprised and disappointed NSF employees. Workers at NSF received an all-staff email about the move an hour before a news conference that announced the relocation, where administration leaders offered little information about plans for the science agency.
