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Tuesday, January 14, 2020
What would you revise?
If LLNS employees and UC/LLNL retirees had the opportunity to revise the current and future Prime Contract/Annual PER to manage LLNL, what would they want revised based on their post 2007 experience and impact to LLNL mission objectives?
13 comments:
Anonymous
said...
NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty has said "Triad is required by the Federal Acquisition Regulation to seek any cost savings possible, including 501(c)(3) status" which applies to non-profit organizations. Therefore, converting the contract to manage LLNL to a non-profit model would be a low hanging fruit decision.
They should go back to Oppenheimer’s flatland-style hierarchy where a staff member is a staff member is a staff member. Forcing “levels” upon the technical staff is artificial, demoralizing, and counter productive. The practice may help settle lawsuits, but is antithetical to science.
I agree, but when you use the term "flatland" you invoke Hecker's bad mistake of doing away with ADs and having all DLs report to him directly. What a disaster. Don't get me wrong - I worked closely with Hecker and he was (is) a great scientist and a great man, but his management ideas were a bit bonkers.
1/17/2020 5:05 PM sounds like a disgruntled ex-DAD. Sig's management ideas did bring the lab through the cessation of nuclear testing unscathed, and by underwriting lab-to-lab collaborations with the Russians who weren't getting paid, avert wholesale proliferation.
"Triad is a nonprofit, public service-focused organization made up of three members: Battelle Memorial Institute, The Texas A&M University System and the University of California."
13 comments:
NNSA Administrator Lisa Gordon-Hagerty has said "Triad is required by the Federal Acquisition Regulation to seek any cost savings possible, including 501(c)(3) status" which applies to non-profit organizations. Therefore, converting the contract to manage LLNL to a
non-profit model would be a low hanging fruit decision.
Triad will seek to not let itself make a profit? HaHaHaHa!
Triad will seek to not let itself make a profit? HaHaHaHa!
1/16/2020 5:07 PM
They are not Bechtel.
They should go back to Oppenheimer’s flatland-style hierarchy where a staff member is a staff member is a staff member. Forcing “levels” upon the technical staff is artificial, demoralizing, and counter productive. The practice may help settle lawsuits, but is antithetical to science.
1/16/2020 10:00 PM
I agree, but when you use the term "flatland" you invoke Hecker's bad mistake of doing away with ADs and having all DLs report to him directly. What a disaster. Don't get me wrong - I worked closely with Hecker and he was (is) a great scientist and a great man, but his management ideas were a bit bonkers.
As I once heard a Battelle exec say, tax-exempt is not non-profit.
1/17/2020 5:05 PM sounds like a disgruntled ex-DAD. Sig's management ideas did bring the lab through the cessation of nuclear testing unscathed, and by underwriting lab-to-lab collaborations with the Russians who weren't getting paid, avert wholesale proliferation.
Triad/ "About Us"
"Triad is a nonprofit, public service-focused organization made up of three members: Battelle Memorial Institute, The Texas A&M University System and the University of California."
1/18/2020 7:52 PM
Yes, Sig did some great things. I admired him, and still do. His line management ideas were bonkers.
1/19/2020 4:53 PM Demoted, Maybe?
Typical blog performance. One serious question about LLNL draws 90% anklebiters from LANL.
1/26/2020 3:50 AM
Spot on
Sorry for your comparative irrelevance.
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