What is the reputation of each LLNS corporate member?

What is the reputation of each LLNS corporate member?

What is the reputation of each LLNS corporate member Bechtel National, the University of California, Babcock and Wilcox, the Washington Division of URS Corporation, and Battelle? What are their respective influence levels within the LLNS LLC?

Another study about how to fix the DoE labs

Maybe, just maybe, someday a leader will act on the problems, and not continue to study them.


http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2015/03/f20/Interim%20Report_SEAB%20Task%20Force%20on%20DOE%20National%20Laboratories.pdf

March 24, 2015 at 5:34 PM

 

 Anonymous said...

"Another study about how to fix the DoE labs"


How about getting a private company to run it? It could be made much more cost efficient have to live up to industry standards. Everyone wins.

So that's where all the overhead is going.....

"The Energy Department’s Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico spent $1.6 million to review similar travel and conference requests during one fiscal year, an increase of $1.4 million from the previous one.

And Los Alamos officials poured $708,500 into updating a travel and expense management system so they could track all the paperwork."


http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/03/23/consequences-of-the-federal-travel-clampdown-more-costs/

Another LANL project over budget and behind schedule

With WIPP closed for the foreseeable future, the TRU waste project will miss deadlines and continue to have a large budget increase.


http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-15-182

Aon Hewitt news?

Has anyone heard more about the change from Aon Hewitt for retiree benefits? I saw a post weeks ago here, but I am waiting for details. I am out of the country and have little access to info. Saw article online on the Independent that there is a briefing on Monday, March 23 at the Bothwell theatre in Livermore. Is anyone planning on attending?

Does LLNS Staff Relations and LLNS Senior Management have "free rein"?

"Does LLNS Staff Relations and LLNS Senior Management have "free rein" to do what they wish to any employee at any time without potential risk to the LLNS annual DOE/NNSA "award fee"?

Neither the LLNS Staff Relations employment practices, or the LLNS employee grievance system are evaluated or graded as part of the NNSA Livermore Field Office annual "Performance Evaluation Report.” As such, LLNS Staff Relations employment practices and endorsement of said business practices from LLNS Senior Management, are not accountable by any established metric in any systematic predefined annual review to either the DOE or the NNSA.

Ellen Pao lawsuit is going to have an impact on LLNL staff relations.

I think the recent Ellen Pao lawsuit is going to have an impact on LLNL staff relations.

http://recode.net/2015/03/06/women-outperformed-men-and-a-sexual-predator-was-on-the-loose-kleiner-perkins-investigator-opens-up/

Staff relations has a history of blaming the victim and easing out employees who are victims of retaliation or seen as "problems" by the management. Management also has a history of making highly personal attacks on performance appraisals that have no relevance to actual performance. That isn't working in the Ellen Pao case. Of course at the lab, management "picks the winners" and pushes down those it doesn't like. This highly subjective criterion doesn't play well in the courtroom.