Applied Engineering, Testing, & Manufacturing Capabilities.; Multisite Integration, Science with a Purpose, National Security Asset, Advanced Technologies

The National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) nuclear weapons complex (NWC) has identified, developed, and deployed successful high-value technologies in support of national security. The production plants, testing facilities and national laboratories are a reservoir of technological capabilities unmatched in depth or breadth by any other institution. Cooperation between facilities involves interdisciplinary, cross-facility knowledge exchanges at all levels of design and development to build perfectibility into the product. For example, the Interplant Technology Team (IPTT) facilitates technical integration between NWC sites. This team promotes inter-site cooperation by helping to coordinate and focus resources that provide technology solutions. Reporting directly to the IPTT, the Network of Senior Scientists and Engineers (NSSE), comprised of five scientists and engineers from each site, meet quarterly to acknowledge and reward scientific excellence, and to promote technical cooperation. The NWC is the steward of the Nation's defense nuclear mission-the military application of nuclear energy and the reducing of global danger from terrorism and weapons of mass destruction. The ability to address the threat of nuclear, biological, and chemical attacks, and to protect high-value assets has assumed a higher priority. To that end, the NNSA focus is on products and technologies that are immediately deployable. We can provide the crucial advantage needed to meet the terrorist threat in all conceivable forms and advance our national knowledge base to maintain the technological edge. This catalog of capabilities highlights those proven, field-tested applications for deterrence and for rapid-response. Presumed First Edition, First printing thus.…