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The DOE NNSA Readiness in Technical Base and Facilities (RTBF) Program
is a $1.7 billion per year program providing state-of-the-art facilities
and infrastructure to support the NNSA's Nuclear Weapon Stockpile
operational and mission requirements. The RTBF Program operates and
maintains NNSA facilities at eight Nuclear Weapons Complex (NWC) Sites:
Kansas City Plant; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Lawrence Livermore
National Laboratory; Nevada Test Site; Pantex Plant; Sandia National Laboratory;
Savannah River Site; and Y-12 National Security Complex.
The RTBF Program's mission is to ensure that technologically advanced facilities and
staff are available to support the requirements of the Nuclear Weapons Stockpile.
Current RTBF guidance to the eight NNSA sites is comprehensive in its intent, but open
to interpretation by the sites in execution. Pressure brought on by increasing requirements
and relatively flat funding necessitated that the RTBF Program gain a better understanding
and control of resource utilization. The primary objective of the RTBF Program is improved
management of scope and resources.
To meet these objectives and to realize efficiencies, required that NNSA have
capabilities in place to improve understanding of the scope, cost and status of
individual RTBF Program components and to be able to compare performance metrics
across all eight NWC Sites. In 2005, PT&C performed a comprehensive assessment
and evaluation of the RTBF Program. PT&C recommended the development of the
RTBF Program and facility baselines, essentially "projectizing" the program,
to achieve the required efficiencies.
Cost-effective projectization structured the program as a collection of projects,
in which work is planned, managed, integrated and monitored using conventional
project management techniques. Projectization allows NNSA to improve its capability
to manage the RTBF Program by putting the tools in place to analyze and prioritize
changes to the scope and evaluate their impacts on the associated resources of the Program.
PT&C efforts provide the NNSA with the ability to link budgets,
performance and costs for all RTBF funded activities, which was not
possible prior to the baselines. Additionally, the RTBF Program and
facility baselines provided an accurate way to monitor future increases
in the deferred maintenance backlog, enabling NNSA to make informed decisions
on maintenance investments at each site.
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