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National Nuclear Security Administration: Nonproliferation and Verification Research and Development

The program develops new technologies to improve U.S. capabilities to detect and monitor nuclear weapons production, proliferation, and testing worldwide.

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 unique purpose to develop critical technologies in support of preventing nuclear proliferation to both terrorists and states of concern.
  • The program has an excellent track record in delivering nonproliferation products and services on schedule and in accordance to customer requirements. However, the program's performance measures for next-generation technologies are new and as such they have made limited progress in terms of achieving these new measures.
  • The program has improved efficiencies by establishing a competitive solicitation process where private industry and universities compete with Department of Energy (DOE) laboratories for R&D efforts.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Ensuring that new performance measures for next-generation nuclear detection technologies are tied to documented R&D goals, operational expectations, technical milestones, and decision/end-points.
  • Developing an activity prioritization process to guide budget requests and funding decisions.

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