Department of Energy FY 2012 Congressional ... - The FIRE Place

High Explosives and Weapon Operations develops, enhances, and deploys capabilities for the
production of high explosive and other energetic components, the requalification of weapons
components for assembly, and the assembly and disassembly of war reserve nuclear weapons.
Nonnuclear Readiness develops and deploys new capabilities to manufacture electrical, electronic,
electromechanical and other nonnuclear components that synchronize and initiate weapon detonation
when required, while preventing unauthorized and inadvertent activation to enhance weapon surety.
Tritium Readiness maintains the tritium production capability to sustain the nuclear weapons stockpile.
The Tritium Readiness subprogram funds all of the activities, including the Tritium Extraction Facility
costs, associated with the production of tritium to meet all defense program demands for tritium
including production, research and development, and required reserves. The subprogram continues
testing and design development and tritium release management activities to increase production
capacity to planned levels.
Advanced Design and Production Technologies develops enterprise-wide technology-based capabilities
that underpin a responsive and agile production complex, applies component manufacturing materials
and techniques across multiple systems, and provides foundational support to ongoing production
operations. Foundational support includes activities for final product acceptance, in-process monitoring
for quality control, establishing integrated manufacture-to-design and vendor qualification systems, and
enterprise resource planning-type systems for production sites.
Annual Performance Results and Targets
The Department is in the process of updating its strategic plan, and has been actively engaging
stakeholders including Congress. The draft strategic plan is being released for public comment
concurrent with this budget submission, with the expectation of official publication this spring. The
draft plan and FY 2012 budget are consistent and aligned. Updated measures will be released at a later
date and available at the following link http://www.mbe.doe.gov/budget/12budget/index.htm.
FY 2010 Accomplishments
Stockpile Readiness
• The Microwave furnace to be used for the material recycle and recovery process at Y-12 was
installed after passing the Factory Acceptance Test.
High Explosives and Weapon Operations
• Deployed Advanced High Explosive Gauging Techniques, which addressed acceptance of small lots
with minimum product loss and, at the same time, reduced overall manufacturing cycle time and
waste.
• High Explosive Certification, Qualification, and Reacceptance (HECQA) revised the triaminotrinitrobenzene
(TATB) military specifications defined by the joint NNSA/DoD Memorandum of
Agreement to develop commercial suppliers of TATB.
Nonnuclear Readiness
• Deployed Neutron Generator (NG) Testers, which assures neutron generator test capability by
modernizing testers as required to support NG production and shelf-life programs.
Weapons Activities/
Readiness Campaign Page 135
FY 2012 Congressional Budget