Lockheed Out at Sandia

1. Lockheed Out at Sandia
   
   After the Lockheed scandal on lobbying to extend the contract, it was not likely going to be a Lockheed contract win.
   http://time.com/3948974/sandia-national-laboratories-lobbying/
   
   Until the winning team members and organization are revealed we can only speculate, but Honeywell winning rather than Batelle likely means that cost, programs, manufacturing and management were more highly valued than discovery science by NNSA. Not very surprising.
   
   Lockheed is now only a minor player in the complex and may soon exit. They apparently already sold off the bid for Nevada National Security Site to Leidos and are a smaller player in CNS Pantex and Y12.
   
   Batelle is not much of a presence in the complex with only a minor role in LLNL.
   
   What all this means for LLNL and LANL is not clear.
   
   Comments:
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   AnonymousDecember 16, 2016 at 6:52 PM

   
   What all this means for LLNL and LANL is not clear.
   
   
   December 16, 2016 at 4:32 PM
   
   
   LLNL will stay with Bechtel and UC, LANL goes to Lockheed, Batelle is completely out as NNSA hates them. 

   
   
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   AnonymousDecember 17, 2016 at 7:45 AM

   
   I am hearing that the Sandia people are completely stunned by the results of the bid and this is the worse case scenario, some though that Lockheed would be out but that nothing so dumb as Honeywell/Northrup would go through. Crazy stuff.

   
   
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   AnonymousDecember 17, 2016 at 7:50 AM

   
   One of the clear messages of the bid announcement is that NNSA does not want to have any University taking part in any kind of management of the NNSA labs. Another rumors is that Bechtel will be putting in a bid for LANL but will dump UC.
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   AnonymousDecember 17, 2016 at 8:00 AM

   If the Bechtel-UC team looses the LANL contract, which is virtually a certainty, then I strongly suspect that UC will drop Bechtel as an LLC partner in running LLNL. No one has every shown that Bechtel (or any of the other industrial partners) have added real value to LLNL operations - only optical type changes that dazzle the NNSA non nothings rating Lab performance.
   
   Keeping in mind that NNSA has publically stated that it is going to substantially reduce the annual award fee for its M&O contracts, 50%. UC would be better served by creating a wholly UC owned LLC to run LLNL, possible with Battelle as a partner. This would make if 100% non-profit LLC, cutting some cost too. Bechtel could still be involved in LLNL but as a supporting partner with a UC LLC or UC-Battelle LLC that is managing LLNL.
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