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UC Regents Approve LANL Bid

UC Regents Approve LANL Bid "The UC Board of Regents unanimously approved the submission of a bid to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory ... “NNSA is a tough, demanding customer,” said UC Regent Norman Pattiz, chair of the National Laboratories Subcommittee, during the meeting. “But the work to be done at Los Alamos is too important for the university to walk away from. I see nothing in this (request for proposal) that changes things so dramatically that we walk away from this.” 

http://www.dailycal.org/2017/11/15/uc-regents-approve-los-alamos-lab-bid-review-audit-progress/

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Anonymous said…
It was a busy meeting for the UC Regents yesterday!

In addition to dealing with the Cali supreme court ruling that UCOP senior employees altered audit reports at the request of Napalitano, the Regents also had to address the issue of the recording of Pattiz breast grabbing an employee. In between these topics, they managed to approve the LANL bid.
Anonymous said…
November 16, 2017 at 10:15 AM

So it was all shady and criminal stuff.

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