Lockheed Martin joins others to run NNSA sites
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The contract that consolidates the NNSA facilities could portend the fate of the Sandia National Laboratories’ contract. The NNSA, in a cost-cutting move, consolidated Y-12 and Pantex.
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“NNSA is moving toward a smaller and less expensive enterprise,” the agency said in the RFI.
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http://www.bizjournals.com/albuquerque/news/2013/11/04/lockheed-joins-others-to-run-NNSA-sites.html
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Guess who will be combined next? LLNL & LANL. Knapp is the vanguard for this move.
November 5, 2013 at 8:48 AM
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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They are one in the same and that's why someday you'll see the two labs become one even if that means they have to shut one down and move all to NM where they're in the middle of nowhere, safe and away from homes.
What an amazing coincidence that all of the board members who sit on the board for LLNS (LLNL) are also the exact same board members who sit on the board for LANS (LANL). What are the odds?
November 5, 2013 at 10:00 PM
According to public UC documents, each board member is also paid many tens of thousands of dollars each year for each board. Some kind of double dipping for the members.
November 6, 2013 at 6:23 AM
Don't forget that the most recent congressional panel to look at the future of the NNSA labs has several of these same doubly compensated lab board members on it, one of them even as chairman of the panel. No way is that a conflict of interest.
If we had a best post of the year award I'd vote for this one.
November 6, 2013 at 11:25 AM
Yeah, but only one at a time and it takes two weeks to set up each shot.
November 7, 2013 at 5:25 PM
That image is wat too weird. Especially when it includes the tiny clown car running around under the lasers.