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:Other labs

[WindBourne]

Yeah, that is kind of what concerns me. See, up this point, anything developed in LLNL or LANL, was licensed OUT of there to others to use. IOW, my tax dollar went into research of which some created a revenue stream. Now, depending on how things were written, my tax dollar may be going into research, which may then belong to the company and which I will have to pay more tax dollars to get back. Worse, all compitition for the rights could be gone.

When I have done work for the Feds, we licensed our stuff back to them, even though several times, it has been on a darpa grant (long ago).

Based on what I have seen of haliburton and DOD/Iraq with a no-competitive bid 4 years later, I have to wonder where things will be in 2 years.