Sitting all day with the Advanced Concepts Group at Sandia National Laboratory
Wednesday, June 22, 2005 at 8:30PM Dateline: cheap motel near the airport in Albuquerque NM, 22 June 2005
Day began at 0800 and went through 2100 with the culminating meal at the Petroleum Club in downtown Albuquerque.
Surprisingly diverse group of about two dozen. All seemed to have read the book. It was non-stop Q&A from 0800 to 1700, then the meal with senior VPs. It was a great exchange, and I felt throughout, "Thank God I have BFA in the pipeline," because how I answer high-end questions from PNM is to naturally move in the direction of BFA. The progression seems natural and real.
A senior guy in the ACG took me aside (he and another VP read PNM and made the case to bring me here) and told me that PNM had had a large and lasting impact on how the lab viewed the future of national security and its role in it.
The big discussion point today? How Sandia helps the US Government to shrink the Gap and equip/enable the SysAdmin force.
Tomorrow I brief and see some of their goodies in brief form. After break, I have asked for transport to Sandia Peak. Start at about 5k and rise in climb to over 10k. I am looking forward to that. Would work footnotes in afternoon if I didn't have this, but how to pass up such a climb?
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