FY 14 30% score for UC rules them out of any possible hope for contention on the Los Alamos upcoming contract. In addition they are the majority partner on the LLC and so the revoking of the contract falls more heavily on UC, no matter why it happened. They enjoyed the LLC while it lasted and got to pick their Director, got to pick their Chairman of the Board, and most of all got to rake in more than 50% of all the fee.
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Not weapons details, not others weapons weaknesses and details, not forensics, not signatures, not paths not taken. Not the basic science nor related science.
NNSA iz fu.cked up with pretenders.
It is an information monoply. UC iz the brain, the only US brain.
July 18, 2017 at 6:10 PM
Well at LLNL and LANL they where mostly from UC schools, along with the Ivy league,
Cal Tech and MIT ect. that changed after the cold war and really changed after 2000. Now it is Texas Tech, UNM, U of Nevada, Texas Dallas, Oklahoma, and numerous other 3rd rate places. Now don't get me wrong there are always some good people coming from all ranks of schools, however the numbers at the labs just to great at this point to be ignored along with the implications for the quality of the people at the labs. I would also add that at both LLNL and LANL if you look at the prestigious postdoctoral fellows, in which many of the people do in fact come from top schools you will find that almost none of them have stayed on. There is a saying A students want to hire A students to keep the quality high, B students on the other hand want to hire C to make themselves look and C students want to hire D students and so on. Now we have the current situation.
There is not a single UC student at Livermore, never has been. UC is turning away qualified California residents just so it can run LLNL and LANL. UC for Californians only not people for Livermore or New Mexico!
By the way, I'm not a liberal and I agree that Pelosi is useless. However, by telling lies to make your point, 4:14 PM, you are useless too.
July 18, 2017 at 8:06 PM
Well that's the most absurd thing I have read all day. There have been MANY, including generations of UC students at Teller Tech.
I was a UC student working at LLNL on my dissertation from 1987-1989. QED, your statement is false.
July 18, 2017 at 8:44 PM
Damm you, some smart ass always has to come in with some "technically correct" statement but misses the whole point. Let us rephrase there was one one or two people from UC schools that work at the labs. Ok you now will you agree with my original point. By the way my real point is the UC is bad and Bechtel is good.
Every employee who worked on nuclear weapons physical science from 1945 to the present was either an UC employee, a contractor or consultant, a outside reviewer (ALA Jasons) or a government or military person on assignment ( ignoring the occasional spy).
UC was/is the worldwide leader in nuclear weapons physics, not at campuses or at HQ, but where the work is done...at LLNL and LANL.
It f'ed it up in 2007 and is less prepared now than then....it is run by Rick Perry, for Pete's sake, the dumbest Texan ever to shhot at coyotes while jogging...
Every employee who worked on nuclear weapons physical science from 1945 to the present was either an UC employee, a contractor or consultant, a outside reviewer (ALA Jasons) or a government or military person on assignment ( ignoring the occasional spy).
UC was/is the worldwide leader in nuclear weapons physics, not at campuses or at HQ, but where the work is done...at LLNL and LANL.
12:23 AM really does not understand how LLNL has operated since the transition. NO ONE except for the Dir and a few other ULM are UC employees. Everyone else works for the LLC. Same at LANL now, and same after the next contract.
NNSA will select some new contractor, and the employees will still be the same ones doing the same jobs with a different employer on the paystub. Look at how SNL swapped out LockMar for Honeywell and the employees other than ULM all the same.
Sheez dude, get a grip and understand that it does matter a lot who wins a operating contract for a national lab from how employees are treated, but the employees are there doing the same work no matter who is the contractor.
Where do LLNL and LANL staff actually come from? Everywhere. Looking at the resumes I have; Illinois, Stanford, Iowa State, Duke, Michigan, Arizona, Colorado School of Mines, Case Western reserve, UC Berkeley, Johns Hopkins, Caltech, Texas A&M, Rensselaer Polytechnic, North Carolina State, Washington, Wisconsin, USC, Florida State, Notre Dame, Georgia Tech, MIT, Delaware, Rutgers, and many, many others.
Many were UC employees at one time but not a single one has been a UC employee for about 10 years now.
Florida State
Delaware
Colorado School of Mines
Iowa
Rensselaer Polytechnic
Texas A&M
North Carolina State
Arizona
Case Western reserve (Reserve actually).
Seriously, how many people from these schools did we have during the Manhattan project? I am not trying to sound arrogant but most people will agree that the quality of the technical workforce at LLNL and LANL has been in decline for some time now. The new motto from Macmillan is you condone what you accept so are we just
accepting a mediocre workforce now? Certainly top people can come from all these schools particularly in certain programs, like Chem E at Delaware, Optics from
Arizona and so on but we have to be honest about what we are really getting and it is no longer the top people. Since there is no PBI for talent I guess it does not matter.
NNSA cannot replace this. This the fundamental weapons physics is what is in jeopardy in the LANL rebid.
UC remains by its virtuoso scientific stewsrdship, the only proven leader and practitioner in this specialty. They are the ONLY credible partner in any way new endeavor.
No other entity has any experience let alone comparable performance. Is there a MIT certified warhead? A Lockheed or JASONs package? Texas A&M? ..the PNNL/UW design?
A least Fuchs and the Rosenbergs had a workable stolen design. Northrup/ Bechtel/Grumman/Elon Musk have nothin..
As the hated Tyler Pryzbylek said with a wry smirk, " substantially equivalent in the aggregate".
Oh, and by the way, for those that don't use the English language regularly, being a graduate of a UC campus does not mean being an employee of UC...just wanted to clear that up
This is a extremely arrogant thing to say. Who are you to judge what "great" work is or is not. Everyone has different talents and abilities. No matter what skills you have or think you have it is no excuse to be arrogant, rude or mean to others this includes Teller. The workplace thrives when we all work together without comparing abilities or work under some destructive narrative of being great. Saying words like great or excellence often come from privileged positions in society that have nothing to do with earned privilege, these are simply dog whistle terms to justify unfair systems of systematic exclusion. I would argue that the words "great" "excellence", "outstanding", and "hard working" can be seen as microaggressions and we should make every effort to stop using them in the workplace. http://dailycaller.com/2015/10/26/msnbc-host-when-republicans-say-the-phrase-hard-worker-theyre-being-racist-video/
UC being an absent operator that just took profit and contributed nothing but failed leadership is what substantially led to LANS being cancelled, and most workers would now say good riddance.
PC ridiculousness. "Dog whistle," "microaggressions," yada yada yada. "Who are you to judge what "great" work is or is not." So I guess in your world, everyone is just average and no one can be allowed to excel, sine that would be demeaning and racist? HaHaHaHaHaHa!!!! Go away, snowflake.
July 20, 2017 at 5:17 PM
Actually McMillan is saying "you condone what you accept". The management had a meeting in which they went through various new slogans. Some examples are
You condemn what you condone.
You acceptance what you condemn.
You condone what you condemn.
You believe in what you cannot defeat.
You keep what you kill.
The graveyards are full of indispensable man.
From each according to his ability to each according to his need.
We are Bechtel and F* you all!
Not even mildly amusing.
From each according to his ability to each according to his need."
I am just taking a wild guess but I have hunch Charlie did not make these slogans, but I could be wrong.
July 20, 2017 at 11:17 PM
Sigh, yet another fake slogan you just made up. Do you think speaking French makes you clever? Again not even mildly amusing.
Try German :)
July 22, 2017 at 4:04 AM
No, "SuperVUCA" is the purpose of LANS, as Charlie and his multitude of sycophants carefully explained with the help of the little Kiwi sex offender. You must have fallen asleep during the presentation, as so many others did.
Why the US government condones this sort of nonsense at the expense of hard-working American taxpayers is beyond belief.
False the US goverment "accepts it" but as Charlie has pointed out that means it condones it. Or was it you promote what you accept...or what you accept makes you essential, or was what you makes you essential you condemn, perhaps it was essential that you accept what you condone?
In any case it is essential that we get rid of LANS, the US tax payer will condone this and LANS will have to accept this. Goodbye to these scum.
You can find the history on The Quote Investigator.
"You keep what you kill."
This is from the Necromongers from the Chronicles of Riddick, a movie with Van Diesel. They also believe heavily in a philosophy that says "you keep what you kill", believing that ending another's life entitles you to their property and position.
It sees fitting for LANS.
UC being an absent operator that just took profit and contributed nothing but failed leadership is what substantially led to LANS being cancelled, and most workers would now say good riddance.
July 20, 2017 at 11:01 AM
Amen and good riddance of LANS and all of the LANS partners for the next 10 years!