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Adrian Cho, who is always excellent, has a very good article on the recent difficulties Fermilab has been having: https://www.science.org/content/article/trouble-and-strife-deepen-famed-u-s-particle-physics-lab
A little background. In 2007, the current contractor received the DOE contract to run Fermilab. These are five-year (maybe its four) but if the lab does well on its "report card" it gets a one-year extension. Fermilab has stopped getting good grades, so they stopped getting those extensions, so the contract is being rebid.
A number of unhappy users have posted the following on the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13924 Perhaps unsurprisingly, Fermilab management was angered by this. They have claimed that this is not all true (but I would say that it is not all false either).
A little background. In 2007, the current contractor received the DOE contract to run Fermilab. These are five-year (maybe its four) but if the lab does well on its "report card" it gets a one-year extension. Fermilab has stopped getting good grades, so they stopped getting those extensions, so the contract is being rebid.
A number of unhappy users have posted the following on the arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2407.13924 Perhaps unsurprisingly, Fermilab management was angered by this. They have claimed that this is not all true (but I would say that it is not all false either).