Billions of dollars at stake in epic battle shaping up between University of California and two Texas Universities

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Ever since World War Two, the University of California has managed the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) in New Mexico, generating jobs, influence, prestige, and income for the university and bureaucrats who administer it. The LANL, which developed the first atomic bomb and has huge responsibilities for the nation’s nuclear arsenal and more, has a yearly budget of $2.5 billion, which generates a huge amount of “administrative overhead” paid to the contract administrator, to cover expense of administering such a vast enterprise.  Jobs, office space, and many other expenses would have to be cut back at UC if the contract were to be lost.

Now, it appears that this historical plum for the university may be at risk. Lindsay Ellis writes in the Houston Chronicle:
Texas' two largest university systems will have to knock off the incumbent if they hope to take over the Los Alamos National Laboratory management contract. (snip)

In September, UT System regents approved $4.5 million in spending to put together a bid, a process that will include finding partners potentially in business and academia. The UT System hasn't formally voted to proceed on a bid to manage the facility, which is responsible for the safety and reliability of the country's nuclear weapons.

They delayed a conversation and possible vote on the bid at a meeting earlier this month, and administrators said then that the vote will likely occur in an upcoming meeting.

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/11/billions_of_dollars_at_stake_in_epic_battle_shaping_up_between_university_of_california_and_two_texas_universities_.html

The continued fall of California as Texas rises, is the way I read this.

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Where's that cartoon of the Aggie wedding with the sheep raising its paw to object?