About ASC

• Overview
• NNSA Program Structure
• ASC Program Activities
• Accomplishments
• Vision for the Future

NNSA Program Activities

Mission

Provide leading edge, high-end simulation capabilities needed to meet weapons assessment and certification requirements

Vision

Predict, with confidence, the behavior of nuclear weapons, through comprehensive, science-based simulations [Cit.]

The Advanced Simulation and Computing program (ASC) is one of National Nuclear Security Administration’s  Defense Programs Campaigns.  Defense Programs has three components:

• Directed Stockpile Work (DSW)
• Campaigns
• Readiness in Technical Base and Facilities (RTBF)

Campaigns are directed at making the scientific and technological advances necessary to assess and certify weapon performance now and over the long-term.  They develop and maintain specific critical capabilities that are needed to sustain a viable nuclear deterrent

ASC is one of six major campaigns:

• Science Campaign
• Engineering Campaign
• Inertial confinement fusion Ignition and High Yield (ICF) Campaign
• Advanced Simulation and Computing
• Pit Manufacturing and Certification Campaign
• Readiness Campaign

More information on all of these Campaigns and Components is available in the NNSA’s Strategic Plan [PDF].