After just 75% of its first two years, there have been at least 9 changes in senior management as listed in LLNS' contract proposal. JD is the latest to go. Thank goodness for Global Security.
Don't these clowns have any sense of honor? NNSA should hammer this LLC for its arrogant and irresponsible management of the contract. They bring in a lot of overpaid examples of the Peter Principle, run the Lab into the ground, and bail even before their sentence is up.
It's time to show LLNS the door.
Don't these clowns have any sense of honor? NNSA should hammer this LLC for its arrogant and irresponsible management of the contract. They bring in a lot of overpaid examples of the Peter Principle, run the Lab into the ground, and bail even before their sentence is up.
It's time to show LLNS the door.
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If you are so familiar with the list, you should note that most of those brought in by LLNS were already here and have LLNL UC roots. The same group that is also bailing before their two year commitment is up.
LLNL is still more UC than anything else - just without the UC bennies for you. And you thought it was all about Bechtel - "don't watch the man behind the curtain . . ."
I heard that GM didn't like him, and IMO, he actually never seemed to really DO anything. GS has been adrift for a long time. I don't know if it was his plan all along to come here, inflate his salary/retirement, not do anything, and get out ASAP, but that is sure how it turned out.
I think at best, JD was out of his element. He never did anything here to establish a positive 'reputation' AFAIK.
Five of the nine had no connection at all to UC: KJ (never came), MA, PH, TJ, and now JD. RM was a previous LLNL employee who LLNS used to replace a really great security director, even though his previos experience was of little value in that job. LLNS' backfill of that job with DL caused another opening in the business area. The only true two UC leftovers were SP and CM, who I agree never added anything to the Lab anyway.
The fact that he is not hanging on for the final six months is recognition that GS is going down the tubes.
The lab shuld be unhappy with the exodus because if they hire a replacement, the salary of the replacement is taken from the management fee rather than an allowable cost. I assume that clause of the contract expires in October of 2009, the 2nd year of the contract.
Has the current set of management failed to dot enough I's and cross enough T's? If so, then NNSA might start huffing and puffing. But as long as LLNS is shutting down buildings, keeping the benefits in check and getting those time cards in on time, NNSA will ride this pony.
If we consider the state of the economy I think it would be safe to assume that if the NNSA were to end the current contract and rebid it, the benefits would be reduced further than what we saw with the demise of the affiliation with UC.
NNSA dors not care about programmatic deliverables. They are not smart enough to understand them.
What they do care about is compliance. It's all they can measure.
With leadership like this, nothing good can happen.
Has there ever been a worse Congress?
LLNL is unlike anything they will have experienced. (Maybe a gifted kindergarten)
A Faustian, farcical, egotistical melange where the god Science reigns and the Muse, Toil, sometimes inspires something of value in spite of herself.
Like France, no one is sure how it works, but you have to speak elegant French and have impeccable credentials to gain entry to the court.
Importing a foreigner to run one of the petite potentates assures only that the foreigner fails and is mocked for his hubris.
Perhaps can be more likened to a sorority than a kindergarten.