He did not even work for a federal contractor. Rather, he was an employee of the Los Alamos National Laboratory,a subcontract or to the University of California-Berkeley, which has conducted nuclear research there since World War II. Any disciplinary process was not a matter for the DOE but for the University of California. More important, to the degree that there was a problem, it lay in the DOE's ability to manage its vast contractor organization-not in the way its headquarters was organized. Paul Light, for example, has estimated that there are 35 contract employees for every DOE worker (Light 1999).