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- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 92 09:08:45 MDT
- From: proicou@merlin.plk.af.mil (Mike Proicou)
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- Subject: Re: AT&T and Sandia
- Message-ID: <telecom12.668.10@eecs.nwu.edu>
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- In article <telecom12.665.15@eecs.nwu.edu> dwn@dwn.ccd.bnl.gov (Dave
- Niebuhr) writes:
-
- > What is happening is that the contracts between the DOE sites and AT&T
- > are up for renewal and apparently Sandia is going with another company
- > for their long distance carrier.
-
- > My employer, Brookhaven National Laboratory, is negotiating a contract
- > right now and I don't know who the players are at the present time.
-
- Nahh, that's not it. AT&T through Bell Labs through Sandia Corp. is
- the operating contractor for SNL. All of the DOE labs and plants are
- GOCO (government owned-contractor operated) facilities. BNL is
- operated by something like Associated Universities, Inc. isn't it? Los
- Alamos is operated by the University of California. Oak Ridge by
- Martin Marietta Energy Systems.
-
- The word in town is that DOE is pushing for the contractors to operate
- the labs for profit (instead of the cost + $1). In exchange, DOE
- wants the contractor to accept liability for cleaning up any
- environmental problems. Doesn't sound like a bargain to me.
-
- I'm across base at the Air Force's Phillips Lab, so this is all just
- stuff in the papers and rumors.
-
-
- Mike Proicou (505) 846-2227
- Phillips Laboratory/WSP Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-6008
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