UC Wins Contract to Run Los Alamos

crlove writes "LA Times reports, 'The University of California today won its hard-fought bid to continue operating the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, beating back a challenge from a Lockheed Corp.-University of Texas team to run the nuclear weapons research facility... For months, the New Mexico laboratory had been shaken by allegations and revelations of theft, fraud, security lapses and lax oversight.'"

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Re:Nice

[oudzeeman]

Too bad they can't win a contract to run the country. They would probably be more efficient than our current federal goverment, although they have been plagued with problems at LANL the last several years

Who is in charge here?

[digitaldc]

I remember hearing stories of missing laptops from Los Alamos, I guess they never found them. I wonder what was on those laptops and who was stealing them? This facility had some of the worst security measures ever seen. Hopefully the laptops were only chopped up and sold for parts.

NASA needs to do this

[Professor_UNIX]

NASA really needs to get out of the business of micromanaging their research centers and let consortiums of universities and private industry run them like the DOE does. It'd probably be much more efficient to not have to employ expensive civil servants.