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Secure Transportation Asset
Overview
Funding Profile by Subprogram
FY 2010 Actual
Appropriaton
(dollars in thousands)
FY 2011
Request
FY 2012
Request
Secure Transportation Asset (STA)
Operations and Equipment 144,542 149,018 149,274
Program Direction 96,141 99,027 101,998
Total, Secure Transportation Asset 240,683 248,045 251,272
Outyear Funding Profile by Subprogram
(dollars in thousands)
FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016
Operations and Equipment
Operations and Equipment 141,560 142,270 146,865 150,561
Program Direction 107,896 110,599 114,656 117,212
Total, Operations and Equipment 249,456 252,869 261,521 267,773
Mission
The STA program safely and securely transports nuclear weapons, weapons components, and special
nuclear materials to meet projected Department of Energy (DOE), Department of Defense (DoD), and
other customer requirements.
The STA Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) unit contains two activities that contribute
to GPRA Unit Program Number 43 – Program Direction, and Operations and Equipment. Secure
Transportation Asset (STA) is a departmental asset. Program Direction provides primarily for the federal
agents and the secure transportation workforce. Operations and Equipment provides for STA’s
transportation service infrastructure that is critical in meeting the stockpile refurbishment and
modernization initiatives of the nuclear security enterprise.
The workload requirements support the Administration’s approach to promoting the President’s
initiative for reducing nuclear dangers and pursuing the goal of a world without nuclear weapons. To
meet these goals, the STA capacity is maintained to support the workload associated with the
dismantlement and maintenance of the nuclear weapons stockpile and the initiative to consolidate the
storage of nuclear material. The uncertain threat environment necessitates the implementation of force
multiplier technologies and also operational enhancements for domain awareness analysis and front-end
reconnaissance. The STA program continues to implement an operationally-focused and intelligencedriven
operation, focusing on the detection, deterrence and disruption of potential threats while
sustaining capabilities to defend, recapture and recover.
The STA current capacity will meet the planned NNSA Stockpile refurbishment and modernization
initiatives and other DOE workload. The NNSA STA Advisory Board (STAAB) will continue to
balance and prioritize customer requests against STA capability. In recent years, the nuclear material
consolidation campaigns have stressed the STA vehicle fleet, and now STA needs to replace aging
Weapons Activities/
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FY 2012 Congressional Budget