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the U.S. manage risk by ensuring that there are available capabilities to detect potential clandestine
nuclear weapons programs, as well as foreign nuclear material and weapons production facilities and
processes.
The DNN program supports the NNSA and Department of Energy (DOE) mission to protect our
national security by preventing the spread of nuclear weapons and nuclear materials to terrorist
organizations and states of concern. These efforts are implemented in part through the Global
Partnership against the Spread of Weapons and Materials of Mass Destruction, formed at the
G8 Kananaskis Summit in June 2002, and the Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, launched
in Rabat Morocco in October 2006.
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.
Major Outyear Priorities and Assumptions
Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation has a key role in meeting the Administration’s nonproliferation
objectives, to accelerate control of "loose nuclear materials" to secure and remove all vulnerable nuclear
material from the most vulnerable sites by the end of 2013. In line with this goal, the GTRI program has
worked in 118 countries around the world to implement nuclear and radiological threat reduction. By
the end of 2016, GTRI will have converted 129 (65 percent) of the 200 HEU reactors, removed
4,801 kilograms (100 percent) of the approximately 4,801 kilograms of vulnerable weapons usable
nuclear material at civilian sites, and protected 2,607 (31 percent) of the estimated 8,500 buildings with
high-priority nuclear and radiological materials.
The Second Line of Defense program will continue to make significant progress in the prevention and
detection of illicit transfer of nuclear material through shipping ports and significant reduction of risk of
terrorists acquiring radiological materials and include approximately 650 border sites and
100 Megaports by the end of 2017. Nonproliferation and International Security funding in the outyears
reflects the growth of the Next Generation Safeguards Initiative to strengthen global safeguards
institutions, in particular the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and revitalize the U.S.
safeguards technology and human capital base. The Fissile Materials Disposition (FMD) program will
continue to work with Russia to dispose of its surplus weapon-grade plutonium in a transparent and
irreversible manner and to dispose of surplus U.S. weapon-grade plutonium and highly enriched
uranium in a similar manner. Nonproliferation and Verification Research and Development created a
new R&D and test/evaluation capability at the NNSA National Laboratories and the Nevada National
Security Site to provide new technical capabilities to meet the Administration’s nonproliferation and
arms control initiatives.
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FY 2012 Congressional Budget