Oct 29, 2007

Cooked Books?

"Michael Anastasio" (presumably not the real one) left a comment on a recent post reiterating rumors that I have been hearing this past week from Washington about the, shall we say, accuracy of LAN's bookkeeping regarding reportable safety and security incidents. The rumors from DOE are that a large part of LANS's $79 million annual award fee is at risk, should it be found that incidents were not being honestly recorded and reported.

For background, recall that it is stipulated in LANS' contract that the LANS award fee will be computed, in part, on LANS being able to reduce the number of security and safety incidents by 30% this year. We can probably expect to be hearing more about this.

-Gus
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7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Not a chance LANS will get caught. Uncle Boddy will protect them.

10/29/07, 12:27 PM
Anonymous said...

LANS, Mikey, would not lie. Never. There will be no rif.

You are just imagining it.

10/29/07, 1:43 PM
Anonymous said...

LANS is currently working on a plan to further reduce the number of reportable incidents by an additional 25%. Rumor has it we'll be hearing about that plan on November 13.

10/29/07, 2:37 PM
Anonymous said...

Lets see - Large house payment, kid in school, no comparable jobs in area, RIF coming. Yeah, I am going to report an incident.

DOE might want to be careful what they measure, they might get it.

10/29/07, 7:30 PM
Anonymous said...

2:37 PM - "LANS is currently working on a plan to further reduce the number of reportable incidents by an additional 25%. Rumor has it we'll be hearing about that plan on November 13."

Yeah, I believe that plan is called a RIF...and if you have every been involved in a safety incident, I would advise you to look for another job before you get fired ... oh, I mean RIFed.

10/29/07, 8:16 PM
Anonymous said...

What, no 20% bonuses for LANS top players? How do you expect them to be able to be purchase high-end matching His-and-Hers sports cars for this Christmas season?

Oh, the injustice of it all!!! It makes me want to go out and kick some of those stupid LANL workers in the butt for spoiling the whole Holiday season for everyone on the top floor of the NSSB.

10/29/07, 11:09 PM
Anonymous said...

Have you noticed, the accident rate reduction was almost linear for exactly a year (June to June) and then it tailed off? And is it a coincidence that DART/TRC rates are reported as 12-month rolling averages?

10/30/07, 7:00 AM

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