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NNSA Administrator D’Agostino to Brief Reporters on the President’s FY2011 Budget Request for NNSA Monday,Feb 01, 2010
National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Administrator Thomas D’Agostino will brief reporters on President Obama’s FY2011 budget request on Monday, Feb. 1 at 4:00 p.m. EDT.
Administrator D’Agostino will highlight NNSA’s commitment to managing the stockpile without nuclear testing, working with our international partners to secure vulnerable nuclear material around the world within four years, recapitalizing the nuclear security enterprise, strengthening our ability to recruit the next generation of nuclear security experts, and continuing the management reforms that enable effective stewardship of the taxpayer’s money.
February 1, 2010 6:16 AM
8 comments:
Geeze, I wonder if Mr. D'Agostino will use this meeting as an opportunity to talk about how NNSA is suddenly ordering their labs like LANL to raise overhead rates on already over-burdened WFO projects by +4.5%... retroactively all the way back to Oct 1st of '09!
NNSA is killing off any chance for the NNSA labs to diversify. Watch their actions, not their speeches.
...recruit the next generation of nuclear security experts...
To do what - maintain the old nukes?
Unless, we start to modernize some of the older weapons just how do they hope to maintain our expertize?
The most likely scenario is that the world will have nuclear weapons around for a very long time.
NNSA has no real plans to diversify their research labs, regardless of what they may say to the politicians and the press.
They'll continue to put the hard squeeze on outside projects until most of them finally leave their labs. NNSA is pushing two main items for the complex with the help of this Administration:
#1. Lots of new construction.
(Yeah, Bechtel!)
#2. Production type work like TA-55 at LANL and Y-12 at Oak Ridge.
That is where all the NNSA big money will be flowing in the future years. Talk about boosting science at the labs and valuing the scientists is just that... talk. They'll keep a little "window dressing" of diversified science around at the margins to placate Congress and the press, but not much else.
As long as NNSA and the for-profit LLCs are around, the trend for diversified science at the labs does not look bright.
Way to go NNSA! You're doing a heckavajob driving off all the fund-generating scientists from the labs.
Keep up the good work! Might I suggest adding in even more levels of useless upper management at the LLCs and further constraints to work policies to help drive costs even higher?
Thank goodness the LANL Blog has finally been shut down! I doubt it will ever be coming back. It was a sleazy mouth piece for a very few vocal whiners.
Most of the employees at LANL are very happy with the new management team. The improvements this new team have made since they came to the lab have been remarkable and the best is still yet to come!
Each and every day, the business practices are being improved thanks to the expertise of the LLC partners from Bechtel and BWXT. LANL is lucky to have such hard working partners helping them improve their operations.
Hopefully, LANS will be able to use the big increases in funding coming next year to bring a much greater number of employees from the business partners into the lab's management chain. One can hope!
February 4, 2010 10:39 PM
Have you had a drug test lately?
LLNS is on the move, making LLNL one the best labs in the nation! The LLNS executive team's 'can-do' spirit is catching on with all the employees.
Join them, as LLNL reaches new heights of excellence in lab operations. Your management team is eager to have you come aboard.
February 5, 2010 7:39 PM
There will be no joining with LLNL / LLNS. Once the end users realizes 90% of their funding is sucked up by administrative and ES&H charges before one can begin work. NNSA seriously needs to investigate this issue and the news media needs to report this dilemma nationally to the public so the American tax payers knows where their money is being spent and how.
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