Background Documents Regarding

Contract Negotiations Between

The University of California and the Department of Energy

Fall/Winter 2000-2001

The documents below are intended to aid University of California Academic Senate Divisions and statewide Academic Senate committees in their review of the University’s decision to enter into contract negotiations for management of the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Livermore and Los Alamos National Laboratories. Further information on these and related documents may be obtained by contacting David Krogh at the statewide Senate’s Academic Council. All documents below are in Adobe Acrobat (pdf) format.

1. Background on the current negotiations and labs history (from the Office of the President's Office of Research)

2. November 15 UC Regents’ item seeking approval to enter into negotiations

3. Summaries of lab sizes and UC’s labs management structure and funding

4. UC’s oversight of the labs: the President’s Council on the National Laboratories

5. Science and Security: Achieving the Right Balance; a presentation by John C. Brown, Director of the Los Alamos National Laboratory

6. Research collaborations between UC campuses and the DOE labs