The end of LANL and LLNL?

"After host Maria Bartiromo questioned whether the two plan to “close down entire agencies,” Ramaswamy said “mass reductions” will be made.
“We expect certain agencies to be deleted outright,” he said. “We expect mass reductions in force in areas of the federal government that are bloated. We expect massive cuts among federal contractors and others who are overbilling the federal government.” Ramaswamy added, “I think people will be surprised by how quickly we’re able to move with some of those changes, given the legal backdrop the Supreme Court has given us.” The founder of Roivant Sciences, a pharmaceutical company, who ran for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination, told Bartiromo that he and Musk will assess the roles of America’s 4 million civil servants, claiming “there’s just too many of them.”

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/vivek-ramaswamy-elon-musk-delete-government-agencies_n_673a5d9de4b0ebe12e367050

Maybe not the end, but big cuts....big really big cuts could be coming. We have 4 million civil servants and maybe 8-10 million contractors? I am not for this drastic cut but anyone who is honest will tell you LLNL and LANL have way too many people for job. I am not a Greg Mello fan at all but he claims some ex LANL Directors told him that LANL has twice the number of people it needs, and behind closed doors everyone acknowledges this. I would guess the NNSA labs are probably some of the more effective labs in the DOE complex so maybe there is some low hanging fruit elsewhere.

Well do not worry my friends, if Trump gets rid of 10 million migrants tthere should be plenty of jobs opening up for the millions of people let go from the government agency who will need jobs. So maybe there is a grand plan after all and the economy will not collapse.

Could be some fun times.

Plutonium Shots on NIF.

Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...

Trump is to gut the labs.

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.

LLNL un-diversity

Actual post from Dec. 15 from one of the streams. This is a real topic. As far as promoting women and minorities even if their qualifications are not as good as the white male scientists, I am all for it. We need diversity at the lab and if that is what it takes, so be it. Quit your whining. Look around the lab, what do you see? White male geezers. How many African Americans do you see at the lab? Virtually none. LLNL is one of the MOST undiverse places you will see. Face it folks, LLNL is an institution of white male privilege and they don't want to give up their privileged positions. California, a state of majority Hispanics has the "crown jewel" LLNL nestled in the middle of it with very FEW Hispanics at all!

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I think LLE Rochester and the Z machine in Sandia are going to be on the chopping block. Both have questionable purpose and are in deep blue states.

11/18/2024 9:08 AM

Let's be honest, DOGE could mandate a RIF of 50% of LANL and LLNL and see a 4x improvement in ability to complete work on schedule. The labs have gone on a hiring frenzy that has only resulted in more management and regulatory bloat. Its almost impossible to get anything done with all of the paper pushers that need to create a need for their salary.

11/19/2024 9:22 PM

"Let's be honest, DOGE could mandate a RIF of 50% of LANL and LLNL and see a 4x improvement "

I see what you are saying but what are the odds they would get rid of the top 50% and keep the worse people and get 10x worse?

This why I think the whole DOGE this is not going to work. Sure Musk can buy twitter go in get rid of people who are not preforming but for huge chunks
of the government workforce how do you decide who to get rid of?
Lets be honest if they do a RIF do you think a single manager would be let go? We would end up with double the ratio of managers to workers. DOGE would have to be more hands on which would mean it would have to big workforce itself just to look everything over in each agency to see where to cut.

11/20/2024 9:35 PM

11/20/2024 9:35 PM: That's on LLNL and LANL. If DOGE mandates a 50% RIF, for example, and the labs decide to trim all of the scientific and engineering staff, and spare all of the bloat and management, then they can expect their business to drop to zero. A lot of what the labs do, if not all, could be sent to private defense contractors with minimal or in most cases no changes to the law.

11/21/2024 6:29 PM

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