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Article: Los Alamos lab audit another blow to UC Federal inspector says $80,000 in missing laptops went uninvestigated
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- April 29, 2003
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WASHINGTON -- More than $80,000 worth of laptop computers went
missing at Los Alamos National Laboratory last year, yet the
unexplained absences sparked no inquiries at the nuclear weapons
facility, a federal audit released Monday found.
The highly critical report from Department of Energy Inspector
General Gregory Friedman found that the New Mexico laboratory has
done an "inadequate" job keeping track of its 5,000 laptop computers -
- possibly placing classified or sensitive nuclear weapons
information at risk.
The report is the latest in a series of blows to the University of
California, which has been fighting an uphill battle to hold onto its
contract to manage Los Alamos.
With Energy ...