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Can someone tell us what the CIO has accomplished since he arrived a year ago?
What is done more efficiently and intelligently now as compared to a year ago?
What is his agenda?
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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Given they didn't have a "make-over" budget to hand the guy, doesn't seem too bad.
Unlike other locations, that always seem to be in reactive mode after a flap-up has forced some quick action.
Lessons in leadership 101: better to anticipate the hit coming and move first, rather than scream "ouch" after it catches you solid, standing flat footed.
Like what was the LLNL CIO Budget and what was done with it? What projects were completed?
The CIO, who has responsibility for IT, reports directly to the Deputy Director for Operations. However, the actual line management for IT is with Information & Communication Services which reports to the AD for Business Directorate who reports to the PAD for Operations & Business who in turn reports to the Deputy Director for Operations.
So you have two separate management lines over the same function (information technology, telecommunication, and enterprise infrastructure). Basically the names of IT managers/staff below the CIO and the AD for Business on their respective organization charts – are the same.
Which begs the question, why do we have or need a CIO?
Just look at the mission statements of the two:
CIO: “The primary responsibility of the CIO is to establish an IT governance and management process that provides the best value for our institutionally funded IT services and systems.”
Business Directorate: “Our Mission is to provide a broad array of essential business and IT services that enable the Laboratory to fulfill its science and national security mission.”
Simple solution; make the AD for Business the CIO, and have one less senior manager.
Big locks, big fences, big guards, big globs of glue, these are things that little minds can understand. In a knee jerk environment, sophisticated and elegant ideas are usually the first to die.
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