INSPECTOR GENERAL REPORT - ANYONE KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THIS?
The Office of Inspector General has issued a report titled “Performance of Work for a Non-Department Entity at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory," (INS-O-14-01).
This report is now available for viewing and can be accessed by clicking the link below:
http://energy.gov/node/796196
If you are unable to access this report, please call (202) 586-4128 for assistance.
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Sometimes, life isn't fair.
This is what should be audited.
HEAF employees did not get tarred and feathered. They were only doing what they were authorized by LLNL management. The IG report was actually pretty mild and the amount of $ being questioned is very small (in fact, so small that surely there was more cost than was admitted); the criticism was directed at LLNL management for not understanding the restrictions on using Licensing & Royalty funds (which has broader implications), and the Livermore Field Office feds for lack of effective oversight. If NIF got some rent from the producers, fine; if you know that the amount did not constitute the full cost recovery mandated by DOE Orders then you should document the costs of rerouting effort due to the filming and turn that info in to the NNSA or IG. HEAF got nothing from National Geographic - the LLNL work was done at absolutely no cost to them; hence the IG report. If HEAF wants to hold a picnic and charge the attendees fees for food and T-shirts, then they can get T-shirts, too. That is up to them.
2. Effective international recognition of employee competence...
All for less than $100k.
The IG spent more than that whining about it.
Perhaps this IG office could use a slight reduction in its staffing authorization, as its marginal use of investigative labor seems counterproductive.
How about a simple 1% staffing cut to all federal organizations.
THINGS WOULD IMPROVE.
4. A scientist retains or improves his/her understanding of weapons effects simulation and experimental correlation.
What a dumb way to run a national laboratory. Science. humbug
That's a pretty good haul for a little explosion in HEAF.
February 11, 2014 at 3:41 AM
You don't understand how it works. As soon as LLNS makes a "profit" the money is immediately divided up to the LLNS directors' and officers' salary and bonus accounts, and to the parent companies, according to established formulas - nothing is retained by LLNS. The provisions of the contract establishing LLNS, LLC state that LLNS is simply a "pass-through" entity.
February 12, 2014 at 11:55 PM
You mean there's nothing to stop them from giving money back to LLNS instead of supporting the researchers at their own campuses? Right. I'm sure that's what they had in mind when they joined the LLC. HaHaHaHa!
Supporting collaborative research between UC faculty and Laboratory scientists.
Supporting UC graduate students in programs that promote interaction between Laboratory scientists and UC graduate programs.
Supporting research that takes advantage of unique Laboratory facilities, especially involving students.
Supporting research in the physical, life, or social sciences, or in the humanities, on topics aligned with the mission of the laboratories.
See http://www.ucop.edu/research-grants-program/programs/uc-lab-fees-research-grants/index.html
A list of the awardees in the last round of awards is at http://www.ucop.edu/research-grants-program/_files/labresrfp/awardees-by-campus2012.pdf
It looks like there might be a mechanism available for UC to pay for the LLNL support to National Geographic using a portion of their profits.