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 The exclusions were based on outdated job categories and related skills.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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That could be argued both ways. Maybe if we test and it works than other nations are going to say what is the point they could never compete with the US. Maybe China will think wwIII is not a good idea. Of course it could turn out differently and Luxembourg will thing they also need nukes to compete with the US and we start another arms race with more instability.
" This has to ultimately come at the expense to conventional forces."
Good point but than again if someone thinks that the US does not have nukes or they do not work than they could attack. In other words a strong NW deterrent could mean we would need less conventional weapons.
The other issue is China may have been watching what has occurred in the NNSA and DOE since 2000 and think that our capabilities have been degraded. If you take what Nanos had to say about LANL then you might think our capabilities are not what they use to be and that the talent base that existed in the cold war are no longer at the labs. Just a thought. You know when you attack the labs and the people at the labs other nations are paying attention. Now maybe in 2004 no one took China or Russian seriously and we thought that NW are thing of the past but that could be coming back to hurt us now.
I see you have very important insights to add to the discussion.
There are no design or component issues with any systems in the current WR stockpile... but there is something definitely wrong with the brain of the a..hole current occupant of the White House.
5/27/2020 7:01 PM
New Mexico is still a flyover state. No matter how much you try you will be let into the elite class of educated and woke people.
5/27/2020 10:32 PM
Only certain flyover states should be allowed to vote.
5/28/2020 1:02 PM
Who is going to do the "allowing"?