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• Operate and maintain the nuclear security enterprise program facilities in a safe, secure, efficient,
reliable, and compliant condition;
• Provide facility operating costs for utilities, equipment, maintenance and environment, safety,
and health (ES&H);
• Maintain critical skills through personnel, training and salaries; and
• Plan, prioritize, and construct state-of-the –art facilities, infrastructure, and scientific tools within
approved baseline costs and schedule.
The RTBF program provides unique contributions to the Government Performance and Results Act Unit
Program Number 42.
Benefits
The RTBF program achieves this mission so that NNSA program facilities are operationally ready to
execute NNSA missions in: Stockpile Stewardship (i.e. Campaigns), Stockpile Management
(i.e., Directed Stockpile Work, DSW), Nuclear Nonproliferation, Naval Reactors fuel, and Emergency
Operations. Work scope and costs include program facility operations; facility and equipment
maintenance; ES&H activities; the capability to recover and recycle plutonium, highly-enriched
uranium, and tritium to support a safe and reliable nuclear stockpile; and specialized storage and
containers sufficient to support the requirements of the weapons stockpile.
To support program requirements and efficient operations, RTBF is funding specific projects and
emergent priority maintenance activities in mission critical and mission dependent facilities through the
Institutional Site Support (ISS) subprogram. The ISS projects focus on sustaining facilities and modern
equipment that support programmatic missions while reducing operating costs. As funding permits, ISS
will also fund select projects to prepare for facility consolidation and foot print reduction activities.
The RTBF program provides resources for NNSA program facilities to maintain readiness to execute
nuclear weapons stockpile stewardship tasks on time, as identified by DSW and the Campaigns. The
RTBF Operations of Facilities maintains mission critical and mission dependent infrastructure to sustain
the stockpile for the long term and keep the facilities and capabilities in a safe, secure, and reliable state
of readiness. The RTBF Construction Program plays a critical role in revitalizing the infrastructure for
nuclear weapons manufacturing and research and development activities.
The RTBF program is closely aligned with other program elements within Weapons Activities,
including the Facilities and Infrastructure Recapitalization Program (FIRP), Campaigns, and the DSW
Program. The RTBF Program partners with FIRP to restore nuclear security enterprise facilities and
infrastructure to the right condition, consistent with mission requirements. The RTBF funds current
operations of the complex and makes capital investments to sustain the complex into the future. The
RTBF ensures appropriate levels of maintenance are performed for designated mission critical and
mission dependent facilities. The RTBF Program partners with DSW and the Campaigns by having the
necessary facilities and capabilities in place to assure program work can be accomplished.
The RTBF Operations and Maintenance subprogram provides an important infrastructure and capability
foundation for all NNSA sites. The production plants (Y-12, KCP, SRS, and PX) and NNSS are
especially dependent on RTBF funding. The RTBF Operations and Maintenance FY 2012 budget
ranges from approximately 32 percent to 69 percent of the total Defense Programs budget at these five
Weapons Activities/
Readiness in Technical Base and Facilities Page 144
FY 2012 Congressional Budget