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Engineering Campaign
Funding Profile by Subprogram
FY 2010 Actual
Appropriation
(dollars in thousands)
FY 2011
Request
FY 2012
Request
Engineering Campaign
Enhanced Surety 41,928 42,429 41,696
Weapons Systems Engineering Assessment Technology 17,977 13,530 15,663
Nuclear Survivability 20,980 19,786 19,545
Enhanced Surveillance 68,794 66,175 66,174
Total, Engineering Campaign 149,679 141,920 143,078
Outyear Funding Profile by Subprogram
(dollars in thousands)
FY 2013 FY 2014 FY 2015 FY 2016
Engineering Campaign
Enhanced Surety 51,922 50,810 47,649 48,773
Weapons Systems Engineering Assessment Technology 21,233 21,502 21,244 21,699
Nuclear Survivability 24,371 25,691 26,079 26,318
Enhanced Surveillance 70,892 67,895 64,477 61,903
Total, Engineering Campaign 168,418 165,898 159,449 158,693
Mission
The Engineering Campaign provides the modern tools and capabilities needed to ensure the safety,
security, reliability and performance of the United States nuclear weapons stockpile. It provides the
fundamental and sustained engineering basis for stockpile certification and assessments that are needed
throughout the entire lifecycle of each weapon. The Engineering Campaign funds activities that assess
and improve fielded nuclear and non-nuclear engineering components without further underground
testing. Additionally, this Campaign increases the ability of the National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA) to predict the response of weapon components and subsystems to harsh
environments and to the effects of aging. In accordance with the 2010 Nuclear Posture Review Report,
the Engineering Campaign directly supports “strengthening the science, technology, and engineering
(ST&E) base needed for conducting weapon system LEPs, maturing advanced technologies to increase
weapons surety, qualification of weapon components and certifying weapons without nuclear testing,
and providing annual stockpile assessments through weapons surveillance.”
Benefits
The Engineering Campaign is comprised of four focused subprograms. The unique contributions of
each subprogram to Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) Unit Program Number 38 are
summarized below:
The Enhanced Surety subprogram develops advanced initiation, use-denial, and power management
options, and integrated surety solutions for consideration for the next insertion opportunity into a
stockpile weapon system. This ensures that new, improved levels of use-control (or denial of
Weapons Activities/
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FY 2012 Congressional Budget