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National Nuclear Security Administration: Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC)

The program provides leading edge, high-end simulation capabilities to meet weapon assessment and certification requirements, including weapon codes, weapon science, computing platforms, and supporting infrastructure. The program serves as the computational surrogate for nuclear testing to determine weapon effects.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Effective

This is the highest rating a program can achieve. Programs rated Effective set ambitious goals, achieve results, are well-managed and improve efficiency.
  • 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.
  • progress via scheduled annual performance measures. Based on prior success, the program has established new goals and measures consistent with its reengineering.
  • The program's activities could support non-weapons-related work, but the focus of the program should be on the critical weapons-related work.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Maximizing the use of resources while avoiding redundancy at the three national nuclear weapons laboratories.
  • Improving the responsiveness of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure by coordinating planned program activity with the Complex Transformation Strategy Record of Decision.
  • Improving 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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