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Appendix 2: Information-Gathering Activities of the Committee
Appendix 2: Information-Gathering Activities of the Committee
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Appendix 2 Information-Gathering Activities of the Committee COMMITTEE MEETING AGENDAS Committee Meeting 1 January 22, 2004 - January 23, 2004 National Academies Building, Room 150 2100 C St. NW, Washington, DC January 22, 2004 CLOSED SESSION 8:30-11:00 am Committee working breakfast and executive session OPEN SESSION 11:00 Discussion of the committee's charge via teleconference with Everet Beckner, deputy NNSA administrator for defense programs 11:30 Discussion with William Press, LANL's deputy laboratory director for science and technology, on the current state at LANL, what makes it special, and what needs to be preserved 12:00 Lunch; continue discussion with William Press and discussion of charge 42
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APPENDIX 2 43 2:00 pm Discussion with Steve Henry, deputy assistant to the secretary of defense for nuclear matters, about DOD's expectations from LANL and the weapons complex in the future 2:30 Short comments from selected committee members about what factors lead to high scientific quality in the organizations that they have managed 3:30 Break 3:45 Panel discussion continues 4:30 Discussion by telephone with Sidney Drell of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center on the challenges of maintaining excellent scientific quality at LANL 5:15 Other comments 5:30 Adjourn 5:45 Reception; guests invited CLOSED SESSION 6:30 pm Committee working dinner January 23, 2004 OPEN SESSION 8:00 am Breakfast 8:30 Summary of results of the recent study on DOE science and the study's insights of relevance to the LANL management competition. Briefing by phone from James Duderstadt, president emeritus, University of Michigan, who was a member of the committee that authored Critical Choices: Science, Energy, and Security 9:00 Discussion by telephone with William Spencer, chairman emeritus of SEMATECH and a member of the 1994-1995 Galvin Commission (Task Force on Alternative Futures for the Department of Energy Laboratories)
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to identify and implement policies, procedures, and practices for improved project management, joined by Richard Little and Michael Cohn, NRC staff members who assisted with the study 11:15 Committee discussion continues 11:45 Lunch, including a discussion of the committee's charge with Robert Simon, minority staff director of the Senate Energy Committee1 CLOSED SESSION 1:00-4:00 pm Committee in closed session 4:00 Adjourn Committee Meeting 2 March 1, 2004 - March 3, 2004 March 1, 2004 CLOSED SESSION 12:00-1:30 pm Committee working lunch OPEN SESSION (Wyndham Albuquerque Hotel, 2910 Yale Blvd. SE, Vista Norte Room, Albuquerque, NM)
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10:00-11:50 Discussions with LANL Senior Executive Team, including G Peter Nanos, LANL director - Introduction and purpose of visit - Laboratory overview - General discussion 12:00 Open session ends CLOSED SESSION 12:00-3:15 pm Tours plus small-group discussions with groups of LANL staff members, to discuss what needs to be preserved at LANL during the competition and possible management transition
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8:00 am-3:00 pm Committee in closed session 3:00 Adjourn Committee Meeting 3 April 5, 2004 - April 6, 2004 April 5, 2004 OPEN SESSION (Hertz Hall, University of California at Davis, Livermore campus) 10:00-11:50 am Discussions with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Senior Executive Team, including Michael R
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Committee members Paul Fleury (serving as meeting chair) , Arthur Guenther, Alan McLaughlin, Cherry Murray, and John Sommerer, along with study director Scott Weidman and NRC staff members Richard Rowberg and Cy Butner, participated in the call.
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March 16, 2004, meeting at Sandia National Laboratories. Committee members Arthur Guenther and Edward Giller met with the SNL director to hear his thoughts on current and proposed NNSA management systems for SNL, on potential contacts for the committee to make who were knowledgeable about nuclear weapons issues, and about the potential problems of bidding the LANL and LLNL contracts together and of managing the two laboratories with different mixes of contractors.
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The results of this conversation were reported at the committee meeting held in Livermore, California, on April 6, 2004. April 2, 2004, telephone conversation between committee member David Campbell and Richard Jacobsen, associate laboratory director for Energy and Environmental Sciences at DOE's Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL)
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April 16, 2004, meeting between committee member David Campbell and William Frazer, professor emeritus at the University of California at Berkeley, about the University of California's role in ensuring coordination and cooperation between LANL and LLNL. Frazer, who is a member of the University of California's President's Council on the National Laboratories, has a long history of dealing with the University of California's oversight of the two laboratories.
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