UC Gets Eight-Month Los Alamos Contract Extension

The University of California’s contract to run the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico has been extended by eight months to allow time for employees to consider employment options as the federal government prepares to select a new manager for the facility, the Associated Press reported Saturday (see GSN, June 1).

The contract was scheduled to expire on Sept. 30. It will now last to May 31, and the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration has the option of extending the contract until Sept. 30, 2006.

Agency chief Linton Brooks said a decision on the laboratory manager is due in November. The six-month transition to the new manager is expected to begin in December, said Los Alamos spokesman Kevin Roark (Associated Press/Albuquerque Journal, June 11).

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