I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) is undergoing a month-long security review in the wake of reports that 69 computers are currently missing from the facility.
Jeffrey Berger, the director of communications at LANL, told Computerworld that none of the information on the missing computers is classified, although two of the three computers recently stolen from the home of a LANL employee were not authorized for home use.
“It is true that [the Los Alamos lab], like any large organization that uses computers, has had computers go missing or get stolen,” Berger said in an e-mail to Computerworld. But he insisted that despite apparent thefts, the lab has “consistently earned some of the highest ratings for property accountability” within the U.S. Department of Energy‘s National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA).
Berger also addressed a Department of Energy memo that criticized the security in Los Alamos. The memo was released by the Project on Government Oversight (POGO).
Berger, however, contended that POGO and some news reports on the missing computers have “distorted the situation.” He noted that Los Alamos employees and on-site subcontractors use about 40,000 computers and related equipment, including desktops, laptops, servers, printers, PDAs and other handheld devices.Under NNSA requirements, the Los Alamos lab must account “for at least 98.7%” of its bar-coded property, including computer equipment, Berger said. “Over the past several years, [Los Alamos] has consistently exceeded that requirement, accounting for 99.5% or more of its bar-coded property. The results of these annual inventories are independently validated by the NNSA’s Service Center in Albuquerque as part of its annual assessment of LANL’s property management system.”
