# Smith 2025: One Fifth of NASA's Workforce Take Voluntary Departure Options

> Marcia Smith, 2025. 3 records on Mysteries Department cite it. NASA's civil-service headcount of 17,391 in fiscal 2025 (excluding JPL), part of the…

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# One Fifth of NASA's Workforce Take Voluntary Departure Options

Marcia Smith, 2025. _SpacePolicyOnline_.

**America's missing scientists, 2021–2026Secondary source** Web pageChecked against the original0

## What it's used for here

NASA's civil-service headcount of 17,391 in fiscal 2025 (excluding JPL), part of the model's narrow workforce.

## Cited by on this site 3 records

[The site's base-rate model expects 10 to 95 times as many homicides in the workforce as the list holds](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/missing-scientists/evidence/EVD0DCQT2HT9TG5/the-sites-base-rate-model-expects-10-to-95-times-as-many)

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[Expected deaths and disappearances in a cleared workforce (base-rate model)](https://mysteriesdept.com/methods/MTH0DCQT0608CVS/expected-deaths-and-disappearances-in-a-cleared-workforce)

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[America's missing scientists, 2021–2026](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/missing-scientists)

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Smith, M. (2025). One Fifth of NASA's Workforce Take Voluntary Departure Options. SpacePolicyOnline. https://spacepolicyonline.com/news/one-fifth-of-nasas-workforce-take-voluntary-departure-options/
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