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 Triad National Security, LLC has earned an overall “Very Good” rating and an overall 83.7 percent of its award fee for its Managing & Operating contract at Los Alamos National Laboratory for FY2021. The total amount awarded is $46.7 million out of almost $50 million that was available. The National Nuclear Security Administration announced the performance results in a three-page summary that can be viewed here: https://www.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2022-02/FY21%20Triad%20PES%20Final.pdf.

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Anonymous said…
Apparently the reviewers were wholly incapable of looking beyond the window dressing provided to them by this drive by tour of Potemkin villages.
2/12/2022 9:45 AM
Anonymous said…
Apparently the reviewers were wholly incapable of looking beyond the window dressing provided to them by this drive by tour of Potemkin villages.

2/12/2022 9:45 AM

Some people have pointed this out.

https://losalamosreporter.com/2022/02/10/nnsa-whitewashes-lanl-performance-hides-information-from-taxpayers/

Concerning the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), NNSA gave the contractor Triad National Security, LLC an overall rating of “Very Good.” As an example, for Goal-1: Mission Execution: Nuclear Weapons, NNSA noted that that Triad “[s]ucessfully made advances in pit production processes…” Yet under “Issues” NNSA declares that Triad, “Struggled with some production activities… Realized setbacks in development and product realization… [and] Experienced several programmatic challenges in executing the plutonium mission.”


One thing is clear Pit Production is priority at LANL now and for the foreseeable future.
2/12/2022 1:33 PM
Anonymous said…
Yawn. The LANL haters have been saying the same thing for 30+ years every time LANL is rated highly. They need a new schtick.
2/12/2022 5:10 PM
Anonymous said…
5:10 In actual fact, and in very large numbers, it has been Los Alamos’ employees, not “haters” who have been pointing out the precipitous decline in scientific output at the Labs.
2/13/2022 10:13 AM
Anonymous said…
They're the haters. Lots of LANL employees have "resisted" since LANS took over from UC.
2/13/2022 4:45 PM
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