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Has anyone heard the status of Norm Pattiz's selection for the LLNS Director? What's taking him so long? Is he in the Caribbean or what? For those of us at LANS, we sure do hope it's Bret Knapp, you deserve him back.
Has anyone heard the status of Norm Pattiz's selection for the LLNS Director? What's taking him so long? Is he in the Caribbean or what? For those of us at LANS, we sure do hope it's Bret Knapp, you deserve him back.
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August 18, 2011 7:11 AM
Don't worry the decision has already been made. The parade before the announcement is a waste of time and money.
I'd bet a paycheck that it will be someone outside both LLNL or LANL. UC, DOE, and the White House believe LLNL's future is as a national science lab more than a nuclear weapons lab. This is the reason they are pushing the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) so hard. George has not been a big supporter of LVOC, so expect UC to pick someone that will not be a weapons first guy.
Bring in Hazel O'Leary. She was great as a DOE secretary, she'd be wonderful at the helm.
Whomever is selected, it will be like swapping captains of the Titanic after the ship hit the iceberg.
August 22, 2011 7:22 PM"
There could a fight brewing in DOE-NNSA over this. I thought the blog said that the DOE higher ups where not happy with the Charlie McMillan pick and would not let that happen again. Chu wants a scientist in charge with some kind of reputation.
August 22, 2011 9:41 PM
You have to give credit to O'Leary for having the "huevos" to freeze our salaries. Chu couldn't even succeed at carrying out Obama's "Shared Pain Presidential Directive" to do the same to us.
Actually, I would like to give Hazel a one way ticket to extremely hot environs. When she did the pay freeze, she thought that everyone got a cost of living portion and then a merit portion, and she was freezing the merit portion. When she found out that places like LLNL received merit only portions, her response was to bad, so sad.
She also came up with the idea of making badges nearly identical rather than the Red/Green methodology. She didn't want those with Red badges to feel discrimination. So if you have a hard time telling a P from a Q, give old Hazel the credit. One thing she and Chu have in common, they both would probably have been in charge of a department that was only involved with energy.