When I heard that the Bechtel/UC team won the contract, I told folks that LANS would combine all the innovation and vision of Bechtel with the administrative expertise of UC.
Ray Parks Consilient Heuristician/IDART Program Manager V: 505-844-4024 M: 505-238-9359 P: 505-951-6084 NIPR: [email protected] SIPR: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) JWICS: [email protected] (send NIPR reminder) On Nov 19, 2013, at 11:09 AM, Steve Smith wrote: > On 11/19/13 10:57 AM, Parks, Raymond wrote: >> Naah, we're just an hour and a half closer to the airport. We still have >> folks tell us they can't work with us because we don't sit side by side with >> them back East. >> > Yes, and a different culture in many ways... I always respected the > differences even though sometimes it *was* very hard to "compete" with Sandia > on certain types of projects. > > When LockMart was bidding on the LANL contract, I thought it would be a bad > idea to have both under the same contractor, though I'm sure it would have > made it easier to sit "side by side" back East. Little did I know what > letting Bechtel in the door would do to LANL. I questioned corporate > stewardship of something as important as Nuclear R&D but at least LockMart > *has* a technical agenda to buffer the economic (and therefore political) > agendas. Bechtel is proud of being completely void of any agenda except > money (and therefore everything that goes with it). UC had it's problems but > I think they were genuinely interested in the lab mission(s).. I got a much > better flavor of that when I spent a year at LBL (while Pete Nanos was > swabbing the decks at LANL with cowboys and buttheads). > > I'm proud to be out in the cold scraping up my work rather than living inside > the warm belly of the machine (beast?), but I still respect many of the > people and much of the work that comes out of said machine/beast. > > Carry on! > - Steve > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com
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