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National Nuclear Security Administration: Readiness in Technical Base and Facilities

The program operates and maintains the Nation's nuclear weapon facilities in a safe, secure, reliable, and compliant condition, and plans, prioritizes, and constructs state-of-the-art facilities, infrastructure, and scientific tools, within approved baseline cost and schedule.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The program has a clear and necessary purpose and there is not any other viable alternative in terms of another government or private entity offering a comparable service; potential overlaps with the Facilities Infrastructure Recapitalization Program have been identified for avoidance.
  • has demonstrated progress in achieving them, and has adjusted to changing infrastructure priorities.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Strengthening procedures to facilitate program application in a similar manner at all eight nuclear weapons complex contractor sites, including adoption of a common work breakdown structure.
  • Continuing to improve the responsiveness of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure by coordinating planned program activity with the Complex Transformation Strategy Record of Decision.
  • Continuing to improve the efficiency and cost effectiveness of the Nuclear Weapons Complex by integrating the program into the new Defense Programs National Level Work Breakdown Structure (WBS) plan.

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