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What SSAI layoffs have meant for employees

If you were on the Hampton notice or the February 2025 Lanham one, the date your notice listed was within a day of a NASA contract date. The Hampton notice's impact date, May 31, 2023, as Virginia Works lists it, is the date HigherGov's STARSS III record gives for the end of new orders under SSAI's Langley science contract and the date its RSES record gives for the start of the contract NASA had planned to take in that work. The February Lanham notice listed April 8 as its effective date in Maryland's 2025 WARN log, the day before the April 9 start Washington Technology reported for Columbus Technologies' contract covering the Goddard engineering work SSAI had held. Neither state's listing gives a reason for any SSAI notice or connects one to a contract change.

The contracts that followed were set up to take on that work. NASA uses the Goddard contract to buy design, development, fabrication, testing and operations support for spaceflight, airborne and ground system hardware, Washington Technology reported, and Columbus, a woman-owned small business founded in 2001, took that work over in April 2025. At Langley, NASA's 2021 notice on the new contract said it would take in STARSS III's research, science and engineering services, while some work on the contracts it replaced, program planning, risk management, and communication and outreach among it, would go to other contracts. RSES, the Analytical Mechanics Associates contract that plan pointed to, spans 15 technical discipline areas, from fundamental research through flight-rated hardware. So if your SSAI work in Hampton was atmospheric research, NASA's plan put it in that contract, and if it was outreach or program planning, the same plan sent that kind of work to other contracts. None of these sources says whether Columbus or AMA hired SSAI's people. If NASA moved your work to Columbus or AMA, you could contact that company.

The spans between each SSAI notice date and the effective or impact date it listed run about eight weeks in Maryland and five in Virginia. Maryland's log pairs each notice date with an effective date, and Virginia's page pairs it with an impact date. The 2025 log puts 56 days between the February notice date and its effective date and 55 for the July notice, the state's 2012 log puts 53 between that year's notice date and its effective date, and Virginia Works' two dates for the Hampton notice are 35 days apart. All four were typed as layoffs rather than closures, in a Maryland log that marks other employers' notices as plant closures, so neither state listed an SSAI site as closing.

Both 2025 filings list the same Greenbelt Road offices in Lanham, so you can tell them apart by the notice date.

If you live in Maryland, MD Labor's Professional Outplacement Assistance Center serves people in professional, executive, technical, managerial and scientific occupations, with individualized career guidance and a computer lab, and its services are free to Maryland residents. Those occupations take in the engineering and science jobs on the two NASA contracts that moved, the Goddard hardware work and the Langley atmospheric research. MD Labor also says it offers Rapid Response activities for any layoff or closure event, so SSAI's Lanham notices fall within it. For an unemployment claim, there's our page on Maryland unemployment benefits, and for the Hampton notice, one on Virginia unemployment benefits.