NNSA Goal and Objectives

NNSA General Goal:

Enhance national security through the military application of nuclear technology and reduce the global danger from weapons of mass destruction.

Objectives:

NS1: Maintain and refurbish nuclear weapons in accordance with directed schedules to sustain confidence in their safety, security, and reliability, indefinitely, under the nuclear testing moratorium and arms reduction treaties.

NS2: Achieve the robust and vital scientific, engineering, and manufacturing capability that is needed for current and future certification of the nuclear weapons stockpile and the manufacture of nuclear weapon components under the nuclear testing moratorium.

NS3: Ensure the vitality and readiness of DOE’s national nuclear security enterprise.

NS4: Reduce the global danger from the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction.

NS5: Provide the U.S. Navy with safe, militarily effective nuclear propulsion plants, and ensure their continued safe and reliable operation.

NS6: Ensure that the Department’s nuclear weapons, materials, facilities, and information assets are secure through effective safeguards and security policy, implementation, and oversight.

• ASC Management
• ASC Focus Areas
• Software Quality Engineering (SQE)
• CPT and Milestones
• UQ/V&V Seminar Series