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Friday, October 20, 2017

Competition

Texas A&M University System regents voted unanimously Thursday to authorize the system to compete for a contract to run Los Alamos National Laboratory, centerpiece of the nation’s nuclear weapons complex and part of the portfolio overseen by Energy Secretary Rick Perry, a graduate of A&M.
The action by the A&M System Board of Regents, meeting at Tarleton State University in Stephenville, about 150 miles north of Austin, comes exactly a month after University of Texas System regents authorized their system to spend up to $4.5 million to prepare a bid to operate Los Alamos.
The lab, which is tucked into the mountains of northern New Mexico, is currently operated by Los Alamos National Security LLC, a consortium of the University of California, the Bechtel Corp., BWXT Government Group Inc. and the URS unit of AECOM.
The contract's fate will be decided in 2018. Essentially, all of this goes back to the World War II Manhattan Project and its link to the UC-Berkeley physics department.
We always take this opportunity to recommend the BBC "Oppenheimer" series to give insight into the history:
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