Bidding Opens for Managing Los Alamos: "The government released its proposal yesterday for bids to run the Los Alamos National Laboratory amid concerns among some members of Congress that new management could lead to resignations of senior scientists at what is considered the nation's premier scientific research complex.

The final proposal released by the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) offers a fixed seven-year contract with an option for an additional 13 years and the potential for making as much as $79 million yearly. That is almost 10 times the fee now received by the University of California, which has managed the facility since 1943, during the Manhattan Project."

(Via Washington Post.)