APPENDIX C
Committee Fact-Finding and Briefing Activities and Documents Reviewed, February 2003 Through June 2003
FACT FINDING AND BRIEFINGS
February 5-7 |
Committee meeting 12, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina. Roundtable discussion of current project management issues (implementation of O 413.3, project definition for Office of Environmental Management (EM) activities, professional development and core competencies, front-end project planning, risk analysis and management, earned value management systems (EVMSs) and tracking project data, performance-based contracting, etc.). Sessions will focus on issues raised by the following Savannah River Operations (SRO) and Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC) managers: |
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John Phillips, Project Management Program Manager, SRO Charlie Hansen, Deputy Manager, SRO Jeff Allison, Manager, SRO Ed Wilmot, Manager, Savannah River Defense Programs Bruce Wilson, Manager, Savannah River Defense Programs Sterling Franks, Manager, Savannah River Nuclear Nonproliferation Projects Bob Pedde, President WSRC Bill Elkins, Vice President for Projects, Design, and Construction, WSRC |
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Overview of WSRC Disciplined Conduct of Project Improvement Initiatives |
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Jon Lunn, Manager, WSRC |
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Briefings on Savannah River Site (SRS) projects |
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Tritium Consolidation and Modernization Project Pete Kozak, Federal Project Manager, SRO Cleaning and Loading Line Modifications Project Wayne Leslie, Federal Project Manager, SRO Overview of Tritium Extraction Facility (TEF) Project Clay Ramsey, Director, TEF Project Office, SRO Mike Hickman, Federal Project Manager, SRO Salt Waste Processing Facility Project Terry Spears, Federal Project Manager, SRO Chiller Replacement Project Eddie Hipp, Federal Project Manager, SRO Glass Waste Storage Building Project Kim Sidey, Federal Project Manager, SRO K Area Material Storage Project Robert Barnes, Federal Project Manager, SRO Pu Packaging and Stabilization Project Guy Girard, Federal Project Manager, SRO |
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Roundtable discussion of project management manual and related project management issues |
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Willie Clark, National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Office of Project Management and Systems Support (NA-54) Roland Frenck, NNSA, NA-54 |
April 7 |
Informal meetings with senior managers |
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James Campbell, Director, Office of Management and Budget Evaluation (OMBE) James Powers, Director, Office of Program Analysis and Evaluation (PA&E) James Rispoli, Director, Office of Engineering and Construction Management (OECM) Robert Card, Undersecretary |
April 8-10 |
Committee meeting 13, Keck Center, Washington, D.C. Updates on project management process improvement and project performance |
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Office of Engineering and Construction Management (OECM) James Rispoli, Director Robert McMullan, Deputy Director Mike Donnelly, Engineer David Treacy, Engineer Thad Knopnicky, Engineer Office of Science (SC), Construction Management Support Division (SC-81) Daniel Lehman, Director James Carney, Deputy Director NNSA, NA-54 Willie Clark, Director Roland Frenck, Deputy Director EM, Office of Project Management (EM-6) Jay Rhoderick, Director |
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Roundtable discussion of current project management issues (Manual M 413.3-1, definition and application of tailoring O 413.3 requirements; roles and responsibilities of headquarters and field managers for critical decisions and project reviews; DOE project management culture: change and permanence, process and expectations of risk management, project management education and career development programs; Project Analysis and Reporting System [PARS] data quality) |
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Representatives of OMBE, OECM, EM, NNSA, and SC |
June 4-6 |
Informal briefing and discussions, Albuquerque, New Mexico, with NNSA, Sandia Site Office (SSO), Los Alamos Site Office (LASO), and Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG) |
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Project Management for the Acquisition of Capital Assets (M 413.3-1) March 28, 2003, rollout Willie Clark, NNSA, Office of Project Management and Systems Support Roland Frenck, NNSA, Office of Project Management and Systems Support |
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Sandia Site Office (SSO) Roles and Responsibilities of Federal Project Directors Strategic Planning/Preproject Planning Budgeting and Site Project Planning Training and Career Development, Project Management Career Development Program (PMCDP) Initiatives, SSO Qualification Process SSO Staffing General Discussion, Planning, AEP, IPTs, Risk Management, Documentation Mike McFadden, Assistant Manager, Facilities and Infrastructure, SSO Frank White, Assistant Manager, Facilities and Infrastructure, SSO |
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Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) Projects Joint Computational Engineering Laboratory Tom Goss, Project Director, SSO Test Capabilities Revitalization Wayne Evelo, Project Director, SSO Center for Integrated Nanotechnologies Frank White, Assistant Manager, Facilities and Infrastructure, SSO |
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Los Alamos Site Office (LASO) Roles and Responsibilities of Federal Project Directors Training and Career Development, PMCDP Initiatives, Qualification Process Budgeting and Site Project Planning General Discussion, Planning, AEP, IPTs, Risk Management, Documentation Herman LeDoux, Assistant Manager for Project Management, LASO Strategic Planning/Preproject Planning Steve Fong, Federal Project Director, LASO |
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Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Projects Cerro Grande Fire Jose Cedillos, Federal Project Director, LASO Everett Trollinger, Federal Project Director, LASO Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Facility Replacement Juan Griego, Federal Project Director, LASO Nonproliferation and International Security Center Steve Fong, Federal Project Director, LASO |
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Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG) discussions SNL Construction Overview Dave Corbett, Manager, SNL MESA Project and the Effects of Manual M 413.3-1 Don Cook, Manager, SNL Jennifer Girand, Manager, SNL Test Capability Revitalization Project and the Effects of M 413.3-1 Lynne Schluter, Manager, SNL |
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EFCOG Desired Changes to M 413.3-1 Frank Figueroa, Vice President, SNL |
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Effect of 413.3 Manual on Other Ongoing Projects at Selected Sites Lynne Schluter, Sandia National Laboratories (SNL) David Chastain, Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) John Shaffer, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) Sam Formby, Savannah River Site (SRS) Tom Etheridge, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) |
June 11-13 |
Informal meetings, Washington, D.C. |
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Office of Science Raymond Orbach, Director James Decker, Principal Deputy Director Daniel Lehman, Construction Management Support Division James Carney, Construction Management Support Division |
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National Nuclear Security Administration Linton Brooks, Administrator Greg Rudy, Associate Administrator, Facilities and Operations Willie Clark, Office of Project Management and Systems Support Roland Frenck, Office of Project Management and Systems Support |
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Environmental Management Jessie Roberson, Assistant Secretary, EM Paul Golan, Chief Operating Officer, EM Jay Rhoderick, Director, Office of Project Management |
DOCUMENTS REVIEWED
Savannah River Site
DOE-SRS Project Management Manual (SRM 410.1.1B), April 21, 2001
Disciplined Conduct of Projects, Causal Analysis and Corrective Action Plan (G-ESR-G-00046 Rev 0), March 31, 2002
Risk Management Plan for the Plutonium Packaging and Stabilization Project (Y-RMP-F-00004 Rev 0), August 21, 2000
Cleaning and Loading Modifications (CALM) Project M03A/B, Conceptual Design Risk/Opportunity Assessment Report CDR2, January 31, 2003
Testimony Before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform, March 20, 2003
Breathing Fumes: A Decade of Failure in Energy Department Acquisitions, Tom Davis, Chairman, U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Government Reform
Statement of Gregory H. Friedman, Inspector General, DOE
Statement of James Rispoli, Director, OECM
Status of Contract and Project Management Reforms, Statement of Robin M. Nazzaro, General Accounting Office
Related Reports
GAO. Major Management Challenges and Program Risks, Department of Energy, GAO-03-100, January 2003
DOE IG. Management Challenges at the Department of Energy, December 2002
DOE IG. Progress of the Spallation Neutron Source Project, November 2001
DOE IG. Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test Facility, May 2003
Project Management Institute, Organizational Project Management Maturity Model (OPM3), 2003
Spreadsheets
List of current DOE capital acquisition projects
List of baseline changes
Summary External Independent Review of Critical Decision-2 Baseline Validation FY2001 Through FY2003
Project Planning Documents
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Facility Replacement Project, Mission Need Statement, Revision 0, February 25, 2002
Elimination of Weapons-Grade Plutonium Production Program, Justification of Mission Need for Seversk Plutonium Production Elimination Project, Zheleznogorsk Plutonium Production Elimination Project, and Nuclear Safety Upgrades Project, December 16, 2002
Columbia River Corridor Project, Justification of Mission Need, Revision 0, July 2002
Columbia River Corridor, Project Execution Plan, Revision 0, November 2002
National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) Technology Support Facilities, Project Plan (Revised Critical Decision 0), November 2002
External Independent Reviews (EIRs) and Independent Cost Reviews (ICRs)
Integrated Closure Project Baseline
Rocky Flats, Burns and Roe (B&R), June 2001
EIRs/ICRs CD-2 Reviews
Argonne National Laboratory (ANL), Mechanical Systems Upgrade, Jupiter, September 2002
Idaho Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), INTEC Cathodic Protection and Expansion, Logistics Management Institute (LMI), August 2001
INEEL, Glove Box Evacuator, Jupiter, July 2002
INEEL, CERCLA Disposal Facility, Jupiter, March 2002
Kansas City Plant, Gas Transfer Capacity Expansion, 03-D-121, LMI, November 2002
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Engineering Technology Center Upgrades, 02-D-105, LMI, July 2002
LLNL, Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility, Jupiter, July 2002
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) SM-43 Replacement, LMI, December 2001
LANL, TA-50 Waste Management Risk Mitigation, Jupiter, September 2002
Mound Site, Potential Release Site, B&R, December 2002
Nevada Test Site (NTS), Bus Upgrades Project, LMI, September 2002
NTS, Atlas Relocation, Jupiter, August 2001
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Research Support Center, MEL-001-25, LMI, August 2002
ORNL, Center for Nanophase Sciences, Jupiter, August 2002
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Laboratory Systems Upgrades, D-494 (MEL-001-18), LMI, May 2002
Pantex, Weapons Evaluation Test Laboratory, 01-D-126, LMI, May 2002
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL), Test Capabilities Revitalization Project (Phase I), LMI, December 2002
SNL, Joint Computational Engineering Laboratory (JCEL), 00-D-107, LMI, September 2001
SNL, Underground Reactor Facility (SURF), Jupiter, October 2002
SNL, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications (MESA), 01-D-108, LMI, November 2001, B&R, February 2003
SNL, Mixed Waste Landfill, Jupiter, July 2001
SNL/Livermore, California, Distributed Information Systems Laboratory (DISL), DP 01-D-101, LMI, July 2001
Savannah River Site (SRS), Western Sector Dynamic Underground Stripping (DUS) Project, LMI, October 2002
SRS, Pit Disassembly and Conversion Facility, B&R, May 2002, October 2002
SRS, Plutonium Packaging and Stabilization, Jupiter, April 2002
SRS, Highly Enriched Uranium Blend Down, Jupiter, November 2001
SRS, Mixed Oxide Fuel Fabrication Facility, Jupiter, February 2002
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope
Large Area Telescope (GLAST), Jupiter, August 2002
Y-12, Special Materials Purification Facility, Jupiter, September 2002
EIRs/ICRs CD-3 Reviews
Hanford Site, Washington, Waste Treatment and Immobilization Plant Project, LMI, September 2002
Los Alamos National Laboratory, Replacement Emergency Operations Center, Jupiter, July 2001
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Terascale Simulation Facility, 00-D-103, LMI, August 2001
Pre-O 413.3 Reviews
Brookhaven National Laboratory, Groundwater and Surface Water Protection Upgrades, SC 01-CH-103-0, LMI, August 2000
Hanford Site Office of River Protection, Initial Tank Retrieval System, Jupiter, May 2000
Hanford Site, Immobilized High Level Waste Storage, Jupiter, May 2000
Idaho National Engineering and Environmental Laboratory (INEEL), Health Physics Instrumentation Laboratory, LMI, June 1999
INEEL, Sitewide Information Network, EM 01-D-404, LMI, April 2000
INEEL, Advanced Mixed Waste Treatment, LMI, April 2000
INEEL, Site Operations Center, LMI, April 2000
INEEL, INTEC Cathodic Protection System Expansion Project, EM 01-ID-402, LMI, August 2000
INEEL, Test Reactor Area Electrical Upgrade, June 1999
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), Terascale Simulation Facility, LMI, July 1999
Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Strategic Computing Complex, LMI, July 1999
LANL, Nonproliferation and International Security Center (NISC), LMI, 1999
LANL, Isotope Production Facility, LMI, August 1999
Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Laboratory Facilities HVAC Upgrade, SC MEL-001-15, LMI, August 2000
ORNL, Laboratory for Comparative and Functional Genomics, SC 01-E-300, LMI, August 2000
ORNL, Spallation Neutron Source, B&R, December 1999
Sandia National Laboratories (SNL)/California, Distributed Information Systems Laboratory, DP 01-D-101, LMI, June 2000
SNL, Joint Computational Engineering Laboratory, LMI, May 2000
SNL, Microsystems and Engineering Sciences Applications (MESA), 01-D-108, LMI, August 2000
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC), Research Building, LMI, June 1999
Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), Remote Handled Transuranic Waste Transportation, Jupiter, May 2000
Y-12, Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, Jupiter, June 2000
Other Reviews, Independent Cost Estimates (ICEs), and Independent Cost Reviews (ICRs)
Portsmouth Gaseous Diffusion Plant, Emergency Winterization/Cold Lay-Up Project, B&R, February 2001
Savannah River Site (SRS), Tritium Facility Modernization and Consolidation, B&R, September 2000
Civilian Radioactive Waste Management (CRWM) Program Capital Asset Plan, B&R, 2002
CRWM Program, 2001 Total System Life Cycle Cost (TSLCC), B&R, January 2001
Yucca Mountain Project, License Application to Initial Operating Capability, B&R, January 2003 and August 2002
West Jefferson Site, Independent Cost Review, Columbus Environmental Management Project (CEMP) Baseline, B&R, November 2001
Fernald Site Environmental Management Project (FEMP) Closure Contract Baseline (CCB), ICR, B&R, August 2001
Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, National Ignition Facility Project, Revised Cost and Schedule Baselines, B&R, September 2000
Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, Neutrinos at the Main Injector (NuMI), Project Proposed Baseline, B&R, November 2001
West Valley Demonstration Project, Proposed Path to Completion Plan, B&R, November 2001