{"id":590512,"date":"2018-06-08T13:54:45","date_gmt":"2018-06-08T19:54:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=590512"},"modified":"2018-06-09T22:16:58","modified_gmt":"2018-06-10T04:16:58","slug":"lucrative-lanl-contract-awarded-to-team-that-includes-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2018\/06\/lucrative-lanl-contract-awarded-to-team-that-includes-texas-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucrative LANL contract awarded to team that includes Texas A&M"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Larry Lamsa \/ Creative Commons<\/p>

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The Texas A&M University System is part of an alliance that was awarded a lucrative contract to manage and operate Los Alamos National Laboratory, the birthplace of the U.S. atomic bomb.<\/p>\n

The U.S. Department of Energy, headed by A&M alumnus and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry<\/a>, announced Friday that a five-year contract has been given to a limited liability company called Triad National Security, which consists of A&M, the University of California System and Battelle Memorial Institute, a research and development organization.<\/p>\n

The University of Texas System also bid for the contract, which is worth an estimated $2.5 billion a year and can be extended for five one-year increments following the five-year base period. The New Mexico lab’s current management contract expires at the end of September but will be adjusted to allow for a four-month transition period, according to the Energy Department’s news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n