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

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FY 2010
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FY 2011
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FY 2012
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Advanced Analysis, Tools, and
Technologies 0 10,250 10,250
This subprogram invests in a portfolio of tools and technologies that will address threats
across multiple national security domains including threat design, international safeguards,
radiochemistry analysis, and material disablement. Integrated software tools that
incorporate uncertainty quantification methodologies and validation of simulation results
will benefit the nuclear security enterprise and a number of the national security partners
that prioritize these important and emerging analysis concepts. Interagency interest in
weapons effects and NNSA expertise will seek tools in areas such as consequence
management and electromagnetic pulse threatened environments. Although nuclear
materials characterization is directly relevant to nuclear emergency response operations and
for surveillance of the current U.S. stockpile, simulation, development, and engineering of
new materials and algorithms will enable robust characterization of aging or less wellcharacterized
nuclear materials. High performance computing is integral to enabling a
robust predictive capability in the service of national defense. Special purpose hardware
and software, advancement in algorithm design and performance, advanced distributed
processing, and appropriately secured computing facilities are aspects of this foundational
technology.
Total, National Security Applications 0 20,000 20,000
Weapons Activities/
National Security Applications Page 314
FY 2012 Congressional Budget