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Science Campaign
Funding Profile by Subprogram
FY 2010 Actual
Appropriation
(dollars in thousands)
FY 2011
Request
FY 2012
Request
Science Campaign
Advanced Certification 19,269 76,972 94,929
Primary Assessment Technologies 82,838 85,723 86,055
Dynamic Materials Properties 86,371 96,984 111,836
Advanced Radiography 28,489 23,594 27,058
Secondary Assessment Technologies 77,581 81,949 86,061
Total, Science Campaign 294,548 365,222 405,939
Outyear Funding Profile by Subprogram
(dollars in thousands)
FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016
Science Campaign
Advanced Certification 97,229 103,271 82,000 84,174
Primary Assessment Technologies 88,893 85,894 88,368 88,831
Dynamic Materials Properties 114,980 114,170 106,398 114,620
Advanced Radiography 26,816 26,528 27,421 26,473
Secondary Assessment Technologies 90,298 86,421 90,128 89,999
Total, Science Campaign 418,216 416,284 394,315 404,097
Mission
The Science Campaign develops our nation’s scientific capabilities and experimental infrastructure used
to assess the safety, security, reliability, and performance of the nuclear explosives package (NEP)
without reliance on further underground testing. The Science Campaign provides this assessment by
developing certification and assessment tools and the experimental platforms to inform, validate, and
provide confidence in our essential predictive capabilities. Its science-based approach provides the
fundamental knowledge needed to: (1) provide a quantitative measure of confidence in weapons
performance; (2) address and reduce uncertainties in our predictive capabilities, (3) predict the
performance of the NEP as components age; (4) inform decisions for Stockpile Stewardship Programs;
and (5) exercise readiness capabilities through experiments and assessments.
Within the nuclear security enterprise, the Science Campaign focuses scientific and technical efforts to
develop and maintain critical capabilities that will sustain the stockpile for the long-term. The Science
Campaign deliverables support: (1) annual legacy stockpile assessments; (2) certification statements for
Life Extension Programs and potential future weapon modifications; (3) reduced response times for
resolving stockpile issues (e.g., Significant Findings Investigations); (4) certification of warhead
replacement components; and (5) the development of improved predictive capability that is important to
the Quantification of Margins and Uncertainties (QMU) conducted in conjunction with the Advanced
Simulation and Computing (ASC) Campaign.
The Science Campaign supports the training and development of the scientific and technical workforce
that will replace the current stockpile stewards who have underground testing experience. The pipeline
for recruiting is fostered by supporting peer-reviewed academic research in core disciplines that are of
special interest to the stockpile stewardship program. Topical areas include materials under dynamic
Weapons Activities/
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FY 2012 Congressional Budget