The NRC OMB Exhibit 300's are business cases that provide a high level summary of the major IT investments active within the NRC agency. The Exhibit 300's provide justification on why an investment should continue by addressing the following areas: project planning, benefit cost analysis, alternative analysis, acquisition planning, risk management planning, human resources planning, enterprise architecture and security. For new investments, this information is used by OMB to determine whether the investment should continue to be funded. For steady-state investments, this information is used to determine the health of the investment and whether or not it meets expectations.
| Title |
Description |
Agency-wide Documents Access and Management System (ADAMS) |
ADAMS supports document authoring and capture, distribution, records management, and search by NRC staff and the public. ADAMS provides document management services to several other NRC investments and many NRC business processes. ADAMS allows the NRC to interact with the public in a more timely and efficient manner than with paper documents through a web interface. |
Budget Formulation System (BFS) (Formerly BFA) |
The Budget Formulation System is an IT investment used for improving and simplifying the budget formulation and execution process. |
Core Financial System - Replacement |
The Core Financial System (CFS) Replacement Project will identify and migrate the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to a new core financial system. The CFS will manage all fiscal data as related to budgetary and proprietary accounts for the agency, as well as, support the budget and project accounting structure. The new CFS will also perform the License Fee billing and collection function of the agency and will provide information to support fee policy and the adjustment of CFR Part 170 full-cost recovery and CFR Part 171 annual fee rates. As with any accounting system, the CFS generates journal files, posts transactions to General Ledger (GL) accounts, maintains accounts payable (A/P), accounts receivable (A/R), funds control information, and facilitates the running of trial balances. The new CFS will also compile the agency CFO Act financial statements and all other external financial reports. |
Cost Accounting System (CAS) |
The Cost Accounting System enables the NRC to assign and allocate costs, trace allocation paths, and provide multidimensional analysis. The system provides managers with cost data to assist them in evaluating the performance of their programs, to capture full cost of software development projects, and to produce reports for use in the compilation of the agency quarterly financial statements. The system includes an obligation model that managers can use for budget formulation decisions. |
Enterprise Digital Data Management System(DDMS) |
The DDMS provides the necessary technology and functionality for the NRC to meet its obligation of conducting the adjudicatory proceeding regarding the DOE application for construction authorization of a HLW repository at Yucca Mountain, NV. DDMS provide IT and A/V capabilities in two hearing rooms; is accessible via the Internet; enables the creation and use of a comprehensive digital record; records, stores, and displays the text and image of documents presented in the hearing; permits access and retrieval of the entire record; allows counsel to bring electronically prepared material to the evidentiary hearing; provides real-time access to the hearing record; and supports information management during pre-hearing, hearing, and post-hearing phases. |
| Incident Response System (IRS) |
IRS is an emergency response management system for NRC Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to protect public health and safety and promote the common defense and security. Subsystems support data, display, and voice requirements, monitor nuclear plant conditions, and support timely emergency response. Emergency Response functions include monitoring site operations & conditions, recording events & conversations, notifying emergency response personnel, sharing information, and gathering analysis of conditions and mitigation actions. |
Infrastructure Services and Support (ISS) |
The mission of the Infrastructure Services and Support (ISS) Program is to advance the achievement of the Office of Information Services in working toward accomplishing NRC's mission by recognizing, integrating, and supporting Information Technology (IT) systems. ISS provides highly available and reliable support through eight key components which support employees and contractors at NRC Headquarters (Rockville, MD), four regional offices, the Las Vegas, NV, High Level Waste Hearing Facility, and 72 remote offices. |
License Fee Billing System (Fees System) |
The NRC is mandated by Federal regulation to recover a major portion of its annual budget from licensees. In order to achieve this requirement, fees are assessed in accordance with the License Fee Management Program for annual licensing activities and various services which include new licensing approvals, licensing amendments, topical reports, and reactor inspections. The Fees System provides an automated method of implementing this Federal mandate. |
Licensing Support Network (LSN) |
LSN will reduce the time needed for the HLW licensing hearing thus providing the Commission the necessary tools to meet the congressionally mandated three-year decision time frame. The NRC expects to accomplish this by replacing the classic "discovery" exchanges among parties with electronic access, via the Licensing Support Network, to discovery materials prior to the docketing of a license application. LSN will ensure that document access, and the associated hearing agenda, can all be handled in an expeditious manner by providing an electronic environment that facilitates a thorough technical review of relevant HLW proceeding documentary material with equitable access to the information for the parties to the hearing. |
Material Licensing Program / Web Based Licensing (WBL) |
The Material Licensing Program/WBL manages the licensing and inspection of nuclear materials. LTS/WBL is a web-based system that will improve licensing processes, support inspections and reciprocity. |
National Source Tracking System (NSTS) |
The National Source Tracking System (NSTS) is a system designed in response to a forthcoming rule for licensee reporting on sealed sources containing nuclear materials. The system will provide on-line tracking of individual sealed sources throughout their entire life cycle. |
Reactor Program System (RPS) |
RPS provides an integrated methodology for planning, scheduling, conducting, reporting, and analyzing inspection activities at the nuclear power reactor and fuel facilities in the US. RPS is used as a tool for implementing the policy and inspection guidance for programs assigned to the NRC regional offices and assesses the effectiveness and uniformity of the implementation of those programs. The RPS database includes inspection and licensing information, plant performance indicators, inspection follow-up items, safety issue data, NRC staff data, facility characteristics, and other reactor regulatory data. |
Secure LAN and Electronic Safe (SLES) |
The Secure LAN and Electronic Safe (SLES) investment will establish a secured, centralized repository of electronic sensitive and safeguards documents, and provide secure network access for authorized users. This capability would provide a Secured IT Infrastructure and network for sharing, processing, and transmitting sensitive information and documents among authorized users internal and external to the agency. |
Time and Labor Legacy (formerly HRMS) |
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s (NRC) Time and Labor Legacy, collects time and attendance and labor data from approximately 3000 employees and 100 consultants. This data is used for employee compensation, billing licensees, cost accounting and resource management. The HRMS system interfaces with many agency systems. |
Time & Labor Modernization |
The Time & Labor Modernization is a self service application allowing employees to report time worked for compensation. The information provides executives with a tool to manage its human resources. The data are used for formulating & executing budgets & operating plans, for workload planning, for managing costs,& for performance monitoring. The data are used in analysis & reporting on resource expenditures & is core to the decision making processes in the agency. The T&L system interfaces with agency enterprise-wide systems, including: Federal Financial System, Cost Accounting System, the Reactor Program System, the Strategic Workforce Planning System. The T&L system has served as a central repository for collecting staff time expenditures in the agency. T&L provides NRC with a means to meet the effective internal control objectives of the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act. |
