NNSA Must Improve Oversight Using Contractor Assurance Systems, GAO Says

摘要

The National Nuclear Security Administration must better establish guidance for its contractor oversight usingrninformation from contractor assurance systems (CAS), according to a Government Accountability Office reportrnreleased publicly this week. The NNSA asked its seven M&O contractors to implement the systems both to assurerntheir own performance and to provide for enhanced NNSA oversight. However, the GAO found that the NNSA hasrnnot put standards in place to ensure oversight is consistent. “For example, at the headquarters level, NNSA hasrnnot provided guidance beyond its general framework for assessing the maturity of contractors’ CAS to determinernwhether information from CAS is sufficiently reliable for federal oversight purposes,” the report states. “In thernabsence of headquarters level policy, NNSA field offices—federal offices located at contractor operated sites andrnresponsible for day-to-day oversight of M&O contractors—have established their own procedures for usingrninformation from CAS to conduct oversight, but these procedures also are not always complete and differ amongrnfield offices.”