DHS intelligence office sent deferred resignation offers to shed staff in recent months

The DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis is working to incrementally reduce the size of its workforce, following plans for mass cuts that faced severe pushback from stakeholders over the summer.

The Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis since the summer has sent its employees offers to leave the government early while taking pay for a set amount of time, marking a renewed push to shed its headcount after it faced scrutiny for related reduction plans outlined earlier this year.

The offers to apply to the deferred resignation program, or DRP, were modeled on the Office of Personnel Management’s “fork in the road” effort and sent twice to I&A staffers since July, according to a copy of one of those offer emails issued in September and a person familiar with the matter. The person spoke on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized ...