Having seen this post on the LANL blog does anyone know what LLNS total cost will be to LLNL and is there anyone who really cares? I wonder if POGO cares since they're so concerned about excessive government spending and misappropriation of tax payers funds, or have we given them all they need to complete their mission.
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Criminal Malfeasance
A comment from the A recursive post on the future of WFO at LANL post suggests that Tom Udall go after Bodman and D'Agostino with charges of criminal malfeasance. I'd like to point out, however, that the GAO has proven itself to be LANS, LLC-friendly, given that the sum total of action taken by the GAO against LANS over the KSL $41 million 2007 slush fund expose has been a big, fat zero. Nil. Nada.
Not a bad suggestion from Udall's perspective though. It would provide an opportunity for him to grab some political sound bites. Sort of like he did when he told Anastaso to ignore NNSA's WFO guidance, and instead lead LANL in a new initiative to go after renewable energy WFO money.
-Gus
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4:59 is exactly correct with the clarification that the total cost of LANS to the LANL budget isn't $200M, it's greater than $1B over the 7 year LANS contract. LANS will cost taxpayers over ONE BILLION dollars in nonproductive costs over the UC's previous cost of running LANL.
Congress needs to hold Bodman and D'Agostino accountable for this astounding waste of Federal funding, so astounding that it perhaps rises to the level of criminal malfeasance. Are you listening, Rep. Udall? This is your chance to stand up for your district; ask the GAO to investigate!
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I expect things will get a lot worse.
Congress's poor performance on passing a budget for FY08 will look great compared to FY09. With a soon to be out of office Republican president, a Democrat-controlled Congress, the real budget negotiations won't start until after mid-January in 2009.
Look for more and harder cutbacks for DOE and NNSA since Congress has already shown that they don't believe in the DOE mission anymore.
Those who support the labs will be history, so anticipate cuts of $500M or more to NNSA's weapons account and the loss of many more employees as time goes on. By 2014LLNL will be down to ~4000 employees and even that may be to many for the mission.
The fun has only begun and most of us need to stay employeed until age 65 but who is going to want you as you get older.
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