Lockheed Martin to Compete for Los Alamos Contract

Lockheed Martin has reversed course and decided to bid for the contract to manage Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, the Associated Press reported today (see GSN, Aug. 9, 2004).

The U.S. defense contractor last summer decided against seeking the contract due to concerns over the lack of profitability in running the nuclear weapons research site. 

Changes ordered by the U.S. Energy Department in the request for bid proposals to manage Los Alamos led Lockheed Martin to reconsider its decision, said company spokesman Don Carson. Changes include allowing the laboratory manager to offer a pension plan other than the expensive program used by current manager, the University of California, and requiring the contractor to set up a separate legal entity to operate the facility.

Lockheed Martin already has the contract to manage the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico through September 2009.

A bid proposal for Los Alamos should be ready within a few months, Carson said.

“Lockheed Martin is fully committed to doing this,” he said (Peter Barnes, Associated Press, March 30).

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