UC Faculty Favors Keeping Lab Contracts
The faculty of the University of California strongly supports the university bidding to keep its long-running role in managing two national nuclear weapons laboratories, according to a poll released Wednesday.
UC has managed the Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore laboratories for the U.S. Department of Energy for more than six decades, on a no-bid contract. Last year, Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said he would require UC to compete for the right to run the Los Alamos lab.
Congress later ordered other national labs that have been managed on a no-bid basis to be subject to bids as well.
UC officials say they have not yet decided whether to bid on the contracts.
But by a 3-1 margin, 3,271 UC faculty members who responded to a poll conducted by UC’s Academic Senate said the university should compete.
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