The grades are in...
and they aren't pretty for LANS/LANL:
http://nnsa.energy.gov/aboutus/ouroperations/apm/perfevals
and they aren't pretty for LANS/LANL:
http://nnsa.energy.gov/aboutus/ouroperations/apm/perfevals
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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LANLs only important mission, weapons is well done 87%.
The rest is passing madness.
Time for NNSA to screw the employees. ..
I recognize the LANS failures, WIPP, the Deputy Director scandal, etc.. Having said that, LANL and LLNL are not evaluated by a roving NNSA Team of employees. Each Lab has their own NNSA Field Office graders. If you swap the NNSA graders, you get what result? We don't know the working relationship or interplay of each contractor to their respective NNSA team of evaluators. Right?
How about that "cowboy" who as former Dep. Director was able to totally overlook the fact that her husband got a sweet, no-bid contract with LANL and could swing trips to the Santa Fe Opera and then bill it as a LANL contract expense? Priceless!
Kansas City: 96% Great!
Pantex: 90% Great!
LLNS: 87% Nice!
NSTec: 83% Sorta Nice!
Sandia: 81% Sorta Nice!
Y-12: 78% Mediocre!
Savannah River: 75% Mediocre!
LANS: 45% OMG.....
That's way beyond any reasonably expected deviations due to the local field office, and all these reports are reviewed up, down and sideways in DC anyways. Epic fail for LANL.
That was the preliminary score from the initial letter, while the final score is in the other letter, also at the same link.
LANS: 9.8%
Indeed, epic fail for LANL. Even in the lowest days under Nanos, the Laboratory was better positioned than where it is now.
Well if you think about it science always scores well. If your reduce the scientific workforce by 1/2 I doubt the score would change much at all but you wave lots of money. If I where looking for a way to save some money and keep up the profits than getting rid of science would be the way to go. Does anyone else thing that any would notice if half the scientists where gone or it would change the score?
Thanks for nothing, Charlie!
RIFs are messy and expensive. Why go that route when you don't need to do it? And don't plan on LANS spending the cash for another lucrative Voluntary Separation Plan (VSP), either.
In fact, I wouldn't be at all surprised if LANS suddenly announces that accumulated severance will be cut back even further... to only two weeks of pay. They got away with making big cuts to accumulate severance several years ago with barely a whimper from the staff, so why not try it again?
If there is a shriveled carrot they will attempt to use for getting rid of the older staff, it will be retiree medical for a VSP. For example, they could announce that anyone who doesn't retire by such and such a date will receive little or no future retiree medical benefits. That would quickly get the older staff who sitting on the fence to pull the rip-cord and go for retirement ASAP. It would also greatly please the bean-counters over at NNSA.
Hmm. How would such a threat not directly impact the retirement medical coverage of retirement age "good old boy" LANSLLNS managers at the same time?
No, I think the low key trickle RIF will be the ticket for "at will" LANSLLNS worker bee employees. You don't think its already happening?
It's been done at other big corporation. It's likely to be done at LLNL and LANL, eventually. Without some effective means of organizing workers and going on strike, American workers will continue to see their pay slashed and their benefits cut.
yeah, butt- the size of the fines and fee reduction mandate a large RIF. Bean-counters will be overwhelmed. Housing "fire" sale at Los Alamos? Just a fact Jack.