Fluor and Boeing Team to Pursue Sandia National Laboratories
Two Renowned Companies Bring Significant Engineering and Project Management Expertise to the DOE Marketplace
IRVING, Texas, Feb 15, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) --
Fluor Corporation (NYSE: FLR) announced today that the company has reached a teaming agreement with Boeing (NYSE: BA) to pursue work from the United States Department of Energy (DOE) at its Sandia National Laboratories.
Sandia is a government-owned, contractor-operated facility that is managed on behalf of the DOE's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). Sandia has major facilities in Albuquerque, N.M., and Livermore, Calif., and an annual operating budget of approximately $2.5 billion. The current contract expires in September 2012.
"We believe that the complimentary resources and skill sets of two world-class companies like Fluor and Boeing offer the NNSA an extremely compelling value proposition," said Greg Meyer, senior vice president of Fluor Government Group. "Fluor's work as a preeminent DOE contractor positions our company well to understand the needs of Sandia and the Nuclear Security Enterprise. We look forward to bringing our experience from across the DOE complex along with our unmatched operations expertise to support the team."
"The Boeing Company currently manages more than $8 billion in annual research and development programs," said Greg Deiter, vice president of Boeing Defense & Government Services. "We will draw on that experience to offer innovative approaches to meet the NNSA's objectives of strengthening performance on national security missions; reducing costs; and supporting operations as an integrated Nuclear Security Enterprise."
"We also offer a unique capability to evolve our support to broader national security tasks in a way that will be complementary to the nuclear security mission," Deiter added.
Fluor, a longtime DOE contractor, applies its program management expertise to provide safe, dependable, and value-added operations services across the DOE complex at Savannah River in South Carolina, Hanford in Washington State and Portsmouth in Piketon, Ohio. For more than six decades, Fluor has assisted the DOE along with other international government agencies in addressing their urgent national nuclear priorities. Boeing has supported national nuclear programs at Sandia and elsewhere for more than five decades.
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Face it -- none of the NNSA labs are truly "science labs" any longer. They are just places for the big Beltway Bandits to make a buck running these once innovative scientific institutions as risk adverse contactor facilities dedicated mainly to "project management" of various types.
Given this, I guess Fluor/Boeing fits the bill nicely. Perhaps at some future date a well managed fast food outlet like McDonald's can take over the lab contracts. They'll be sure to "serve it your way", NNSA!
What I want to know is whether the Fluor trailer with all its proposal background will burst into flame shortly after they lose the competition. It may just be an ABQ sort of thing.
The Fluor trailer of lab bidding documents will only burst into flames if they are running against the troika members of the "Livermore Mafia"... UC/Bechtel/BWXT.
I understand the Brett Knapp loves to play with matches and gasoline!
Welcome to Animal Farm
Boy they will f**k up Sandia. More cost reduction measures to win the contract through lower overheads meaning: lower pension contributions, lower medical contributions, less sick leave, less vacation leave.
At the transition, you will lose your vacation and sick leave accrual. Managers and owners will take most of the savings in bonuses and ask for even bigger incentives.
The managers and owners get the spoils and the workers that do the work get......merde.
We are all equal, if we are the pigs.
Leave now or plan to get screwed.
DOE surely does not want weapons scientists.
What the heck do either of these pretenders know about weapons engineering?
They are displaced government lackeys, looking for another soft tit.
Judging from the success of the 777 the airborne laser, and missile defense, Boeing engineers have forgotten how.
And Fluor, they are just big Republican contributors, who screwed Iraq and are now looking for another victim.
The good news is that Tyler Przybylek is leading the team.
Boeing has the reputation of suing the Gov. to recover bid costs if not the successful bidder.
The good news is that Tyler Przybylek is leading the team.
February 16, 2011 10:26 PM
I hope this is a joke. If true, then the IG office should immediately get involved and investigate Tyler. He's the guy who was deeply involved with the selection of LANS at LANL and was the single individual tasked by Tom D'Agostino with choosing the "for profit" LLC winner at LLNL... LLNS.
Conflict of interest is all over this thing! Are their no rules any longer to stop this Beltway Banditry? It's clear that the Beltway firms see big $$$ signs when they look at management of the NNSA's new "for profit" nuclear weapons complex.
What the heck do either of these pretenders know about weapons engineering?
They are displaced government lackeys, looking for another soft tit.
February 16, 2011 10:22 PM
What the heck did Anastasio and Knapp know about weapon engineering or weapon physics? I mean come on, these guys are no expects by any means either and they are running LANS. I knew Knapp at Livermore during his career, and take my word for it, he was a novice at running the finite element codes and his knowledge of weapon system engineering is a joke. We used to call him a "parts chaser". How many refereed journal papers did either of these guys have? These guys are con artists at best. They have the community snookered!
"How many refereed journal papers did either of these guys have? These guys are con artists at best. They have the community snookered!" - 5:06 AM
I can hear it now from the LANS Board once our next crowned Director, Charlie Mcmillan, leaves LANL after becoming fully vested in all the LANS corporate retirement perks....
..."Brett Knapp for the next Director of Los Alamos National Lab!"
He's probably being groomed for the position as we speak.
"..What the heck did Anastasio and Knapp know about weapon engineering or weapon physics?.."
At least they could spell them correctly.
And hey, Mike used to have a decent handicap.
Brett, well, he's just not very well liked down there is he?
Maybe as he ages and his testosterone level dips, he'll go a little easier.
You guys aren't surrounding him with beautiful young secretaries are you? That rutting and demonstrations of courage and cunning can be trouble. Moses and Emmett were like that too...
I suggest that you surreptitiously surround Brett with happily, openly gay administrators. That should slow him down. It has worked before.
s/a very old hand
As the 'A' grade scientists all flee the NNSA weapon labs, the 'B' grade scientists hang on for dear life until retirement while the 'C' grade scientists strive to take over all the remaining high salaried management positions.
It's NNSA's formula for success!
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