NNSA Management: Progress in the Implementation of Title 32

摘要

Title 32 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (P.L. 106-65) established the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) as a semiautonomous agency within the Department of Energy (DOE) with responsibility for the nation s nuclear weapons, nonproliferation, and naval reactors programs. The Congress created NNSA to correct long-standing and widely recognized management problems at DOE, which had been underscored by significant cost overruns on major projects and security problems at the national laboratories. This report reviews NNSA's progress in implementing four key components of Title 32 intended to improve NNSA's management, including NNSA's reorganization efforts; integrated planning, programming, and budgeting improvements; use of its excepted service personnel authority; and efforts to improve its procurement practices. In presenting the results of our work, we agreed to identify for each of the four management areas (1) the underlying problems to be addressed, (2) the status of NNSA's progress, and (3) the management issues that still remain. We recognize that the implementation of Title 32 is an evolving and dynamic process; our observations on NNSA's progress are based on audit work conducted through December 2001.