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Appendix G: Origins of the 2010 Four-Party Governance Charter Memorandum of Understanding
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From page 72... ... By late 2007, NNSA's laboratory directors agreed to these concepts of transformation and signed the NNSA-developed white paper together with DOE Under Secretaries for Nuclear Security and for Science.2 By June 2008, Energy Secretary amuel S Bodman signed the Focus Area 4 statement for transformation from a nuclear weapons complex to a "national security enterprise."3 At the same time, there was a growing dissatisfaction of key IC members with the way DOE sought to manage the IC engagement with the NNSA laboratories. 1 Established in a 2010 memorandum of understanding signed by the Secretaries of the Departments of Energy, Defense, Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence; reprinted in Appendix F Read the entire page →
From page 73... ... This early work by ODNI staff led to an April 2009 meeting with DOE Secretary Steven Chu, Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman, NNSA Administrator Thomas D'Agostino, and DNI Dennis Blair and other ONDI staff to discuss the NNSA laboratories' role in supporting the national security agencies. The DNI stressed the importance of the laboratories maintaining capabilities in core areas to support existing IC missions, as well as having the flexibility to invest in new inter-disciplinary capabilities to meet 4 This was the top recommendation from the IC-DOE laboratories working group led by the National Intelligence Officer for S&T for then Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Donald Kerr. Read the entire page →
From page 74... ... 5 Information on the early MEC meetings is drawn, inter alia, from an unclassified internal IC document prepared by an ODNI participant in the process and presentations to the NRC study committee. 6 MEC membership currently is as follows: IC -- National Intelligence Officer for S&T and Director/National Counter Proliferation Center; DOE -- Administrator/NNSA and Under Secretary for Science; DOD -- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; DHS -- Under Secretary for S&T and Director/Domestic Nuclear Detection Office. Read the entire page →
From page 75... ... 7 The IC has found that the MEC process has helped drive internal consideration of priorities and established lines of internal communication that had not existed before. Nonetheless, most comments on the MEC suggest it still has further to go before meeting its potential to provide strategic partnership for the national security laboratories. Read the entire page →

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... By late 2007, NNSA's laboratory directors agreed to these concepts of transformation and signed the NNSA-developed white paper together with DOE Under Secretaries for Nuclear Security and for Science.2 By June 2008, Energy Secretary amuel S Bodman signed the Focus Area 4 statement for transformation from a nuclear weapons complex to a "national security enterprise."3 At the same time, there was a growing dissatisfaction of key IC members with the way DOE sought to manage the IC engagement with the NNSA laboratories. 1 Established in a 2010 memorandum of understanding signed by the Secretaries of the Departments of Energy, Defense, Homeland Security, and the Director of National Intelligence; reprinted in Appendix F

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... This early work by ODNI staff led to an April 2009 meeting with DOE Secretary Steven Chu, Deputy Secretary Daniel Poneman, NNSA Administrator Thomas D'Agostino, and DNI Dennis Blair and other ONDI staff to discuss the NNSA laboratories' role in supporting the national security agencies. The DNI stressed the importance of the laboratories maintaining capabilities in core areas to support existing IC missions, as well as having the flexibility to invest in new inter-disciplinary capabilities to meet 4 This was the top recommendation from the IC-DOE laboratories working group led by the National Intelligence Officer for S&T for then Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence Donald Kerr.

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... 5 Information on the early MEC meetings is drawn, inter alia, from an unclassified internal IC document prepared by an ODNI participant in the process and presentations to the NRC study committee. 6 MEC membership currently is as follows: IC -- National Intelligence Officer for S&T and Director/National Counter Proliferation Center; DOE -- Administrator/NNSA and Under Secretary for Science; DOD -- Assistant Secretary of Defense for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defense Programs and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; DHS -- Under Secretary for S&T and Director/Domestic Nuclear Detection Office.

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... 7 The IC has found that the MEC process has helped drive internal consideration of priorities and established lines of internal communication that had not existed before. Nonetheless, most comments on the MEC suggest it still has further to go before meeting its potential to provide strategic partnership for the national security laboratories.

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Appendix G: Origins of the 2010 Four-Party Governance Charter Memorandum of Understanding Pages 72-75

Appendix G: Origins of the 2010 Four-Party Governance Charter Memorandum of Understanding
Pages 72-75