Bureaucracy, Labor Woes Doom Super-Weapons Lab

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The story below about the death of Boeing's Super-Weapons Lab will sound *very* familiar to anyone who has been working at LLNL or LANL over the last few years. It probably should get its own top level posing on this blog:

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Bureaucracy, Labor Woes Doom Super-Weapons Lab

http://www.wired.com/dangerroom/2011/11/mega-weapons-lab/

The cuts begin at Los Alamos

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November 28, 2011 - LANL Memo

Director Charlie McMillan has established a Laboratory Integrated Stewardship Council (LISC) to make financial decisions and provide approvals (staffing and spending) in order to keep Laboratory spending in line with current budget expectations.

McMillan notes that LANL's key challenge for FY12 will be “to manage our staffing and spending to levels that will accommodate the ~$200M budget reduction that we expect to see in FY12.” He set up the LISC to ensure that resources are managed in a consistent and appropriate fashion throughout the Laboratory.

Rich Marquez of the Director’s Office (DIR) will lead the LISC, which includes Terry Wallace of Global Security (PADGS), Bret Knapp of Weapons Programs (PADWP), Carl Beard of Operations and Business (PADOPS), Alan Bishop of Science, Technology, and Engineering (PADSTE), and Paul Henry of Capital Projects (PADCAP).

America is not broke

Interesting report on how to solve our problems. Makes sense.
Some politicians and their corporate allies dont want the changes.
We do. We can let them know in October 2012.

http://www.ips-dc.org/reports/america_is_not_broke

Who is Battelle?

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Great story about LLNL manager, Battelle:

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/21/142583959/youre-probably-using-battelle-technology-and-dont-even-know-it

Impact of the Supercommittee failure

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So the super committee failed. It should mean big cuts for defense. Now the question is whether this includes NNSA and DOE. Anyone know anything?

How commited are you to the LAB under LLNS/LANS poll results

Respondens: 56
More: 1
less: 41
the same: 14

Chu testifies.

Chu testifies on Solyndra loan.

http://www.c-span.org/Events/Energy-Secretary-Chu-Testifies-on-Solyndra-Loan/10737425577-1/