Well, the posting for the new CIO is out. I wonder if the "third time is the charm". Let's hope they get it right this time! I'm not sure if we have a good pool of internal candidates. Most have applied before and have been rejected.
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Yes, maybe the third time will be the charm, but I really doubt it.
A position that has been vacant for years isn't critical(nor is the required entourage).
Overhead is high enough.
The only way this will ever change is by replacing the entire IT workforce and its management or by only keeping the proven corporate minded IT folks at the lab. The person who posted three or so posts prior kind of hit the nail on the head when they stated that Parney needs to "grow a pair" and put his foot down. Dump the so called CIO position and it associated cost or make changes in management to offset the cost if you do keep it. Makes perfect sense to me since the CIO program hasn't really been successful to the lab for the duration of time that it has been around.
At the end of day Parney is the guy in charge and he too has to answer to someone. This is purely a business decision and one that needs to make LLNL a better more cost efficient and effective place from an IT perpective regardless of how IT staff and management feel. You pay them to work and do what they are told by the management you selected to run your organization. It's ok to have the people you pay be thinkers and innovators but they have understand that they represent LLNL as an entity and there is due process. You can't just have a bright idea with a cowboy attitude and approach, then be thrown money to do as you please.
If this can't be achieved within reason then.... As stated in a previous comment fire everyone and go with a outsourced solution to get your business in line with your scientific mission and budget. Science, weather it's defense, medical, energy, etc. is the most important asset that LLNL has to offer not IT! Somewhere the train jumped the tracks!! Without delivering the science LLNL doesn't stand a chance and goes bye bye. Better get it right Mr. Albright I want to remember you as a noble man who made change and realized the importance of LLNL and its scientific mission not as the last man before its impending doom.
We are under no rule of law to have one, and we can't afford to create another high level support staff position (with its inherent entourage) at this time.
Bad timing, if we're trying to fill a 120 million dollar hole, we'll need to forego the luxury.
Looks like we got a real genius here. A non technical person trying to speak technical. In any case how could a network failure be blamed on the CIO?
You my friend are a troll and have no clue what a CIO does therefore you should keep your mouth shut! Something else I can't help but mention and that is by the time stamp of your post you chose to come here and post your worthless comment during work hours. Maybe you should read your "LLNL acceptable use policy" im pretty sure it doesn't cover you using LLNL's time and resources to air your dirty laundry about the LLNL CIO on this site. I highly suggest you stop trolling this site during work hours and do some real work!
Wait, we already have that.
Allocate funding for IT projects with no oversite.
Yep, that about sums it up.