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(7) deploying applications for the NNSA Enterprise Secure Network as the common
backbone for the Enterprise to exchange classified data, documents, drawings, and threedimensional
models (to maintain compatibility with existing weapons information systems
and master nuclear schedules); and (8) execute feasibility studies in conjunction with the
DoD (e.g., long-range standoff analysis of alternatives).
Plutonium Sustainment 141,909 190,318 154,231
The Plutonium Sustainment program includes the technical skills, equipment and facilities to
maintain the nation’s plutonium manufacturing capability in support of the nuclear weapons
stockpile. Additionally, the Plutonium Sustainment program supplements RTBF through a
tax assessed based on the footprint utilized by the Plutonium Sustainment program in PF-4,
as well as estimates of effluent and waste.
The FY 2012 mission scope includes: (1) support manufacturing modernization to include
equipment and Industrial Engineering improvements to the manufacturing process;
(2) maintain a base pit production capability; (3) support pre-production activities of a
planned Defense Programs Power Supply mission. The Power Supply mission includes preproduction
and facility improvements to support the assembly operation at Los Alamos
National Laboratory. The base program capabilities include development to establish the
capability to produce a second pit type, and development activities that include Los Alamos
National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
Total, Directed Stockpile Work 1,564,290 1,898,379 1,963,583
Weapons Activities/
Directed Stockpile Work Page 74
FY 2012 Congressional Budget