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National Nuclear Security Administration: Science Campaign

The program develops capabilities to assess and improve the safety, reliability, and performance of the non-nuclear and nuclear explosive package engineering components in nuclear weapons without further underground testing.

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 ensure that U.S. nuclear weapons can safely and reliably serve their essential deterrence role.
  • Nuclear weapon activities are primarily executed by contractors operating Government-owned facilities. The program needs continued improvement in holding contractors accountable and seeking efficiencies to save costs.
  • The program has demonstrated progress in achieving its long-term and annual goals, such as completing the development of improved confidence measures for weapons reliability by 2010, meeting the 18-month test readiness requirement and the development of hydrodynamic tests required for weapons certification by 2008.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

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

  • Strengthening procedures to hold contractors accountable for cost, schedule, and results by expanding the linkage of Contractor awards to performance evaluation.
  • Continuing to improve the responsiveness of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Infrastructure by coordinating 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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