Jack Kelly Jack Kelly, logistics and property control manager, wrote this column. The use and care of government property is vital to the mission of the laboratory, and the vast majority of the property located here on the Fermilab site — computers, vehicles, HEP electronics, just to name a few — is owned by the United States government. Use of government property is restricted to the performance of work under our prime contract with the Department of Energy. It is…
Jack Kelly Property and Inventory Control Manager Jack Kelly wrote this week’s column. Every year our laboratory must perform an inventory of sensitive assets, such as laptops and digital cameras. These are items that, regardless of cost, have a high potential for loss. There are currently about 17,000 such items for which Fermilab must account. The Property and Inventory Control Department works with all the custodians to account for these assets and is always looking for ways to make the…