"NNSA Won’t Rule Out Forcing LANL Manager to File for Tax-Exempt Status"
"In a late Monday email to Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, Burgess affirmed he received his information directly from NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty during a September meeting in Washington, D.C. Gordon-Hagerty’s office believes Triad is required by the Federal Acquisition Regulation to seek any cost savings possible, including 501(c)(3) status, Burgess said."
https://www.exchangemonitor.com/nnsa-wont-rule-forcing-lanl-manager-file-tax-exempt-status/
"In a late Monday email to Weapons Complex Morning Briefing, Burgess affirmed he received his information directly from NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty during a September meeting in Washington, D.C. Gordon-Hagerty’s office believes Triad is required by the Federal Acquisition Regulation to seek any cost savings possible, including 501(c)(3) status, Burgess said."
https://www.exchangemonitor.com/nnsa-wont-rule-forcing-lanl-manager-file-tax-exempt-status/
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NNSA is the boss and should have the final say. The rumor was that Triad was picked precisely because it was to be non-profit and not pay taxes. Triad is already on a bad footing by saying they will pay taxes, if they go through with this NNSA will not be happy. If they do this than NNSA should yank whatever fee they would be getting.
October 25, 2018 at 9:39 AM
Naivete. Just watch.
Rumors are the town council is going completley nuts over this and are in full panic mode, lots fear and loathing. This was THEIR MONEY and it CANNOT be taken away at this point. They are looking at all sorts of possible legal actions ect in order to get what they want. Some have even said that if they cannot get the GRT than why the hell have this goddam lab in the first place.
It is going to be fun.
Lab is responsible for the death of another person, unbelievable, scandal after scandal. So now we have WHL, stolen Mustangs, Fires, Culture of Theft, Firing Whistleblowers, Beating up whistle blowers, Meth for secrets, Lost disks, rude bloggers, blown up building and so on. As for dead people we have Burik, Hook and now this person to add to long history mystery and dysfunction. All this and UC wins again, what is wrong with America?
October 29, 2018 at 2:32 PM
Nothing if you aren't a gullible, naive, conspiracy theorist who has no tolerance for actual truth. All of the "issues" you cite are false, and have been proven so many times. Why are you stuck in this stupid game??
My God, LANS is really coming to an end, it is real. No more SUPVUCA, no more McMillan, no more massive bonuses, no more talk about WE FOR PROFIT and what is good for LANS is not necessarily good for the United States, you work for LANS not the United States and LANS is a business and the purpose of a business is to make money.
The question now is that there was a whole swath of managers who bought into this, ra ra, PBI's means more money crap, are these guys going to change their tune and say they never believed that. Some of the bad actors are gone or will be gone soon for sure but there are plenty of others who still on or least never rocked the boat.
October 31, 2018 at 3:41 AM
It's worth keeping in mind that all the former LANL managers that sided with LANS in the competition and then were given LANS management positions, "bought into" what they were told by LANS during the competition process and not what actually later occurred under LANS. I know more than a few who quit once they saw what LANS was actually doing, and some who stuck it out in order to help keep LANL somewhat as it was under UC, if possible. To paint them all with the same broad brush is unfair. Some of them were, and remain, good managers.
That is a good point, I suppose some could not simply come out and say that they where against LANS. I suspected a few might not onboard with LANS due to their lack public support or their comments that one could read into. With that there was definitely a few who went all in and than some. It was like a few of these people always wanted to be Wallstreet movers and shakers but it did not work out but under LANS they saw their chance. As you could guess some these are now out, but there still seems to be few on the org charts that I have real doubts about.
I believe you are correct. Perhaps Triad can do some winnowing of the bad actors. One can only hope.
Has the circle been broken?
There are rumors that people like Wallace, Chadwick, Zerkle, ect had been part of other bid teams. I always assumed it would have been Bechtel but who knows.
Wallace certainly did not seem very happy the last month of his tenure so I cannot imagine they have him some great high up super senior powerful scientist position or anything. He is kind of Shakespearean villain, who sold his soul for power, "I would do anything to have the throne, I deserve to be King at any price" and so he was in fact granted his wish...for all of 9 months and was treated like the lame duck that he was, now he is nothing and will not even be remembered as being a lab director. Be careful what you wish for.