Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!
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Looks pretty good. So the top shot goes to Mason and the next two are Webster and Sarrao. I am not sure how you say Battelle calls all the shots, just looking at it it looks like UC and Battelle call the shots. The people I know at ORNL have been very happy and scientifically that lab has been making leaps and bounds in recent years. Let us hope they same will happen at LANL. By the way the Texas-AM tie in may be through Webster. My guess is Texas-AM wants to connect weapons and basic science in the lab in terms of
making some kind joint programs and other tie-ins, hopefully they have something like that planned.
All in all great news for LANL.
Mason is from Battelle. Mason is also the President and CEO of Triad National Security so he is clearly, clearly in charge.
Curiously, a Deputy has not been named nor is there a box on the current Triad org chart for a Deputy. Of the three at the level down, Beierschmitt is a Battelle guy with experience at 3 Battelle Labs; INL, PNNL, and ORNL. We all know Webster as a UC person, but some might not know that he also has one foot in the Texas A&M camp. Sarrao, a UC person, leads science. Makes sense since science is about the only thing UC didn't screw up.
So much for the phony claim that UC's role would increase under Triad. It won't. UC's role will clearly be diminished.
July 9, 2018 at 7:16 PM
Looks like UC role will increase since under LANS Bechtel actually called all the shots, at least that is the perception. Also it is the first time since Browne that a real scientists will be in charge of the lab, so in many ways Mason is much more like an old school UC guy than the LANS guys. Culturally it is more like the old UC days than ever, which is a good thing. You have to face the facts that NNSA is basically saying the last 15 years have been a total mistake and they kind of want it to go back to the old way.
July 9, 2018 at 7:16 PM
Wrong again. Don Kerr was not a UC person. Pete Nanos was not a UC person. Both did irreparable damage to LANL.
Absolute garbage, attempting to rewrite history. Both Kerr and Nanos were chosen by UC and therefore were "UC people." That they didn't work for UC before being chosen is irrelevant.