Workforce Analysis to Support Future Pit Production; An analysis of the workforce environments in Aiken, South Carolina and Los Alamos, New Mexico

Various paginations (approximately 60 pages). Footnotes. Clear plastic cover over title page. Illustrations (some with color). Several portions blacked out as part of the production process. Item has no markings indicating any distribution limitation or information sensitivity. The Department of Defense requires that the United States have the capability to produce 10 war reserve (WR) pets per year (ppy) in 2024, 20 WR in 2025, 30 WE ppy in 2026, and 80 WR ppy in 2030. To meet this requirement, the Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) is evaluating options to support increased plutonium pit production over the next several decades. A factor in the selection of a preferred alternative is the ability of the site to adequately recruit, hire, and retain the highly skilled and specialized production workers needed to produce plutonium pits. NNSA tasked LMI with analyzing the workforce and staffing environments of the Savannah River Site and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The Logistics Management Institute (more commonly referred to as LMI Government Consulting or LMI) is a non-profit consulting firm catering primarily to the public sector. Founded in 1961, it is headquartered in Tysons Corner, Virginia near McLean in the Greater Washington, D.C. area, with eight satellite offices located throughout the United States. In 2004 LMI acquired The Bureaucrat, Inc., a non-profit organization which publishes The Public Manager, a quarterly journal covering public management issues, and the following year formed the LMI Research Institute, which conducts research for the organization both internally and through academic partnerships with several research universities in the United States. In 2008, LMI purchased Jasmah Consulting, which was reorganized as the Intelligence Programs group within the organization's existing infrastructure.…