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A science & weather blog by John Fleck

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ICYMI, LANS paid $59.7 million to run Los Alamos in 2012

My colleague Mark Oswald has the rundown on the award fee paid to Los Alamos National Security LLC for last year’s management of Los Alamos National Laboratory:

Federal officials have awarded the Bechtel-University of California group that runs Los Alamos National Laboratory $59.7 million for managing the lab in 2012, but held back another $15 million that lab managers could have earned.

Also, Los Alamos National Security LLC got a one-year contract extension through a “one-time waiver” that was granted by the National Nuclear Security Administration, despite LANS’ failure to meet all the criteria for the extension.

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