Much greater NNSA oversight.
Congressional Budget Report
One of the most interesting parts of the above 2008 Congressional Budget Request for the NNSA is contained in the "Site Funding Summary" starting on page 569. While the design laboratories and the rest of the NNSA complex show essentially level funding between 2006 and 2012, Washington DC Headquarters funding is anticipated to go from $348M in 2006 to $1,267M in 2012. The 2012 funding level for DC is about equal to the projected funding for SNL and greater than that anticipated for LLNL. Note the 44% funding increase from 2007 to 2008.
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Hey doobydew!
This defies logic! HQ's funding should be proportionate to site funding; if the sites funding is being cut, you would expect HQ funding to be cut too.
Those making decisions look out for themselves and care less about the mission or taxpayer!
I agree. We can see this mentality at LLNL where ULM gets the bonus checks, high pay and are RIF exempt. Personally I'd like to see the 17 pages of worthless bozo's gone by Monday morning 1/7/08.
How many of these clowns do you think are going to get RIF'd? Try (none)...and it'll only get better with time.
I guess a herd of retiring admirals is headed for NNSA in the near future. They don't come cheap.
These are the kinds of issues that we should keep in mind when we vote next October. Most of us think voting independent is a waste of vote and keep voting the usual republican or democrat.
The ONLY way thing can change is to vote independent!
Maybe Headquarters is getting ready to design RRW3 without us. This way they won’t have to call for a competition between LLNL and LANL?
NNSA's Complex Transformation identifies under Mission Highlights for LLNL: "LLNL will be a Center for Excellence for Nuclear Design and Engineering ..." (NNSA own word).
With no nuclear testing, no RRW, no significant nuclear material at LLNL after 2012, no Site 300 testing, this mission will keep a dozen or so LLNL scientists, engineers, and technicians employed. However, ULM will probably not need to be reduced.
"With no ..... Site 300 testing, this mission will keep a dozen or so LLNL scientists, engineers, and technicians employed."
Eventually, the testing done at Site 300 will be done at the NTS or at Los Alamos. LLNL employees will travel there as part of the "mobile" experimentation teams.
January 6, 2008 7:05 PM
Sounds like an exciting job. Any volunteers. Lets see, you'll get to travel to strange places, live in run down cheap hotels, transport all of your test equipment to and from the location, lots of air time, be away from your family, your kids will wonder who you are, meet people who you could care less about, work in unfamiliar places, work very long hours and a lot of over time, make less money and in the end probably get served divorce papers. Now that's a life I want to live, for a company that took my UCRP retirement and lied to me all during the process, would lay me off on a moments notice, has no loyalty to me and is now going to reduce my 401K benefits and probably take away medical so I have to work until I am 65.
Why would anyone want to come to work for LLNL and put up with this Bull knowing that at one time they had it all right here on site and gave it up to make more layers of unwanted and unnecessary management who will be sitting at home with their famaily while you do all the work and they take all the credit.
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