Los Alamos paper breaks story on LANL contract extension
"There is more to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s 2012 performance evaluation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory than meets the eye.
According to documents obtained by the Los Alamos Monitor, the lab received a one-time waiver from the NNSA fee determining official — principal deputy administrator Neile Miller.
In a letter from former Los Alamos Site Office head Kevin Smith to Miller, the award term (one-year contract extension) originally was not granted. But at the bottom of the letter, the no is scratched out with a notation, “Yes. Contingent on LANS letter attached.”
That LANS letter was written by DOE Senior Procurement Executive Joseph Waddell to lab director Charlie McMillan, dated on Dec. 7. The letter stated that Los Alamos National Security had been granted a waiver for the FY-12 NNSA fee by the Fee Determining Official (Miller).
According to the letter, LANS met two of the three criteria but earned less than 80 percent overall at-risk fees."
"There is more to the National Nuclear Security Administration’s 2012 performance evaluation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory than meets the eye.
According to documents obtained by the Los Alamos Monitor, the lab received a one-time waiver from the NNSA fee determining official — principal deputy administrator Neile Miller.
In a letter from former Los Alamos Site Office head Kevin Smith to Miller, the award term (one-year contract extension) originally was not granted. But at the bottom of the letter, the no is scratched out with a notation, “Yes. Contingent on LANS letter attached.”
That LANS letter was written by DOE Senior Procurement Executive Joseph Waddell to lab director Charlie McMillan, dated on Dec. 7. The letter stated that Los Alamos National Security had been granted a waiver for the FY-12 NNSA fee by the Fee Determining Official (Miller).
According to the letter, LANS met two of the three criteria but earned less than 80 percent overall at-risk fees."
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What does this mean? Can someone please explain?
And wasn't Kevin Smith then reassigned to manage rivers or something? That's surely a good way to deal with a troublemaker whistleblower.
January 15, 2013 at 8:41 AM
No, he got a promotion. He's inside one the Hanford tanks with a mop.
"As a premier national security laboratory, we are held to very high standards for safety, security and mission performance -- and rightly so.
These expectations are reflected in NNSA's evaluation of our performance for Fiscal Year 2012, which we received last week. While we fell short in some areas, I can report that NNSA gave us a final score of 80% and -- I'm very pleased to say -- did the award us an additional contract year. "
Sounds like little Charlie needs a good ole fashioned whipping and needs his nice toys (allowances, Porsches, bonuses, flight benefits) taken away from him instead.
January 16, 2013 at 7:22 PM
I wonder what Charlie thinks now when he says "follow the money" when he sees it swirling in the toilet bowl just before he can't see it anymore.
January 18, 2013 at 3:38 PM
That's been happening since LANS "took over'. Come out and visit the Facility Operations at TA-55, WETF, and Waste Programs. A bunch of "sweat shops".
January 18, 2013 at 7:28 PM
The LANS Facilities (e.g. Weapon Facility Operations, TA-55, Waste Facility Operations, etc.) are not sweat shops but "cesspools". The Facility Operations Directors (FODs) for example, Steve Henry, Hugh McGovern are viscous and abusive examples of so called "managers". These are horrible places to work at LANL.
There are layers of rivals, infighting, incompetence and dalliance in DOE, another layer is immaterial.
An 80% score in Congress requires an exorcist.