Ok, so you are the king of the lab for a day. Being realistic, you know, really having to operate within a budget, and having to get a job do. What would you do?
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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Stop all LDRD not related to a WFO sponsor or NIF programs. We need focus and funding to those programs bringing in money need to grow.
Remove all the middle management and associated admin management staff positions.
Bulldoze half the site and reduce the footprint.
Sorry....but this would result in more people needing to go.
2. Send a classified letter to SecDef Gates detailing how screwed up the Weapons Complex really is.
3. Send a unclassified letter to Congress and the White House telling them to talk to Gates. Additionally request that a national defense emergency be declared so that both lab contracts would be immediately terminated and control assumed by DoDef. Under those terms all employees will become Federal employees, with Federal protections, wages, benefits, and retirement programs.
4. Furthermore request a criminal investigation of Betchel, NNSA, and ULM for waste, fraud, abuse and possible treason for subverting the nation's nuclear program.
5. Send a personal letter to every current, layed-off, or retired employee ( or next of kin ) apologising for the wrongs done.
I could do all that for less money than GM spends for lunch - that within the budget?
2) I will create an AD and put him or her in charge of improving morale
3) I will stand up to NNSA's stupid bureaucratic requirements that add work but no value.
4) I will promote productivity to an equal level as safety and security.
5) I will not tolerate incompetence at any level
6) I will bring back LLNL values through action not words.
Well said. Well said.
Wait, haven't we already run for a decade the experiment of providing about every possible institutional subsidy to the northeast corner?
Set performance metrics. Each and every person should have a set of goals, that if met, means greater compensation. These metrics define success or failure. Not something arbitrary. Don't meet your goals? Then less compensation. Don't meet any of your goals? Nice working with you.