LLNS may have excluded the wrong people in last VSSOP? The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills. ULM are now thinking that in the future, job categories and functional areas will have to be re-defined. The next VSSOP/ISP will be based on the new categories and functional areas. The questions I have are: 1) Why didnt they think of that before the transition. It seems like their style is “change things as you go”. Planning is out the window! 2) Who will give input on the new changes? The next RIF apparently is going to be more lucrative than the VSSOP. Depending on the length of employment, a RIFed person, not only gets their 1 week pay per year of service but also from 30 to 120 days notice, essentially 30 to 120 days pay. Please feel free to comment on the rumors or add new ones you actually heard.
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The report does say one thing that is right in that NNSA does not leak something unless they have opinion on what they want and what they want is to not have pits being made at LANL. The money savings may be one part but the bigger issue is that LANL has shown that it has serious issues in terms of safety, work efficiency, and declining quality of the workforce. This is on top of issues that Santa Fe will fight tooth and nail against pit production at LANL. Things have been falling apart at LANL and everyone knows it, do you really think it is good idea to have them now run a large risky facility that can only function well if it has top people working in at it? This is a serious question can we trust the modern LANL to do this? The sad thing is that NNSA no longer trusts LANL but the NNSA is partially to blame for making LANL what it is today.
Welcome to the future of LANL where it looks more and more like LLNL.
January 27, 2018 at 4:48 PM
In case you have noticed LLNL just got the highest score possible, maybe just maybe if LANL became more like LLNL it would also get a good score. Just something to think about.
So moving pit production to a NNSA Production site has always been in the cards - keeping it at LANL was never the plan.
Let’s evaluate this for what it actually is: incompetent NNSA middle managers who have consistently lied to the DoD and have neither the budget, abilities or skills to do their jobs.
I agree. The simple rule of thumb is take the NNSA number and multiply by PI (3.14159...) to get the actual cost. I have found this to be correct in many cases over the years. The simple reason why is that the NNSA forgets to add a factor for putting up with the oppressive oversight and ridiculous requirements it imposes just for reporting work (not actually doing work).