The U. of California should lose these contracts.
The federal government is threatening to take over security at a nuclear weapons lab after learning top managers were kept in the dark for weeks about a missing access badge that could open thousands of doors. Officials at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory said Friday they have no evidence that anyone tried to use the badge, or a set of keys lost separately. But they acknowledged the loss was "fundamentally a management failure.""We don't have any excuse for this," said lab Director Michael Anastasio. The incidents were more bad news for the University of California, which manages Livermore and the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab in New Mexico. Problems at Los Alamos led the government to announce that it will put the management contract for that lab up for bid when it expires in 2005, breaking UC's 60-year lock on the facility.
via AP and Mercury News
Posted by Alan at May 31, 2003 12:24 PM