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Who will be the new LANL Director?


Since the lowest score in the evaluation was for leadership, who will be brought in from outside LANL to replace Charlie?
December 18, 2015 at 10:37 AM

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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Ed Moses?
December 18, 2015 at 10:39 AM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
How about Charlie Verdon? You guys need another LLNL guy.
December 18, 2015 at 3:05 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Verdon, Dunning, Pinkington.
December 18, 2015 at 3:39 PM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Verdon, Dunning, Pinkington.

Just more Livermore losers. We are so tired of hearing "at Livermore, at Livermore,..." at Los Alamos.
December 19, 2015 at 5:05 AM
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Anonymous Anonymous said...
Where is Norm Pattiz in this fiasco at LANS? He is the principal reason that the LLCs have failed. It's absolutely unbelievable this loser has endured all the failures of the Labs during the last 9-years. Where is he? On his $20M yacht, at a Lakers game sitting on in the front row, in his Beverly Hills mansion sitting at the fire in his silk pajamas with a gold brick necklace smoking Cuban cigars sipping Cognac. He doesn't care about the Labs! He's never showed at LANL, he can't fly his jet into Los Alamos, it too large for the runway.
December 19, 2015 at 5:16 AM
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Anonymous said…
Moses would be perfect. He wanted Parney's job so badly, you could taste the bitterness at his all-hands meetings. He would be ideal running LANL, as a no-nonsense leader who hates scientists and would fire everyone up-top and replace them with his hand-picked sycophants. There would never be another safety or security incident at LANL, ever, problem solved.
Anonymous said…
Federalize the nuclear weapon complex.
Anonymous said…
Well they just brought in wife of security division leader to head up QA. Only qualification! She has zilch background. So replace Charlie with ummm, errrr, I know how about Oprah?
Anonymous said…
Charlie with ummm, errrr, I know how about Oprah?

Oprah would be better.
Anonymous said…
The LANS BOG isn't going to waste its time searching for a new director with less than two years left before they are toast. Charlie will ride the dead horse to the bitter end. (Following the money all the way!)So long, suckaaahs!
Anonymous said…
From all indications, 8:25 has cracked the code. UC has given indications that they are done with LANL forever, and have no intrest in being part of any contract there in the future. In which case, they will keep Charlie and the PADs until the final day.

On the other hand, if they have any desire to remain involved at LANL, the best path forward would be a total dump of the present team, and then bring in an outside Lab Director.

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