Reports: Criminal Charges Against Boeing Recommended To DOJ After Deadly Crashes
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/reports-criminal-charges-against-boeing-194601357.html
The budget has a 20% decrease to DOE office of science, 20% cut to NIH. NASA also gets a cut. This will have a huge negative effect on the lab. Crazy, juts crazy. He also wants to cut NEA and PBS, this may not seem like a big deal but they get very little money and do great things.
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DOE has a history of ignoring acts whistleblower retaliation by its lab contractors against their employees. The retaliation motive being, lab LLC award fee amounts can be negatively impacted by project delays, attention directed to subpar safety, poor engineering controls, etc. You might want to look into it if you’re interested.
In the Boeing situation, leadership are alleged to have willfully ignored whistleblower safety concerns, willfully deceived investigators, and sanctioned employee retaliation in order to keep said safety concerns silenced. This kind of safety culture is alleged to be related to the deaths of Boeing passengers.
Are you referring to LLNL as a whole, or a particular Directorate or Department within LLNL?
Sometimes, people “look the other way” because in doing so, it prevents having to deal with personal ownership of the situation, however small or large that ownership might be. This is a well established lab culture that exists to this day.
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6/27/2024 3:58 AM
The problem is Boeing does something, it builds airplanes. If the planes do not work they have a problem. Other companies build planes and can take Boeings business.
LLNL and LANL have no product that can be tested. There is no competition either. LLNs, LANS, Bechtel, whoever can run it has bad as they want.
Some people just don't have a backbone!
Unfortunately, you are 100% correct. They are perverse “for-profit” federal contracts by any free market standard with negative consequences for the mission and for their dedicated workforce. What will the 2026 contract change bring to LLNL?
LLNS HR as an employee protector via LLNS policies, is a complete sham. LLNS HR is 100% subservient to LLNS staff relations, and LLNS staff relations, is a 100% subservient to the for-profit LLNS LLC. That is where we are now, and have been for years.