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Report 1 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise (2017) / Chapter Skim
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5 Concluding Thoughts
Pages 35-38

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... The NNSA Administrator should demonstrate urgency in efforts to clarify roles, responsibilities, authorities, and accountability, with particular emphasis on clarifying interactions and relationships between NNSA's management and operating contractors and their government sponsors. Future documents need to resolve ambiguity in several of the earlier policy documents.
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From page 36...
... The NNSA Administrator should define an effective mission-focused operating model as the vision for implementing the changes called for in reports of the Congressional Advisory Panel on the Governance of the Nuclear Security Enterprise and the Commission to Review the Effectiveness of the National Energy Laboratories and elsewhere. NNSA should continue to embrace the concept that change is an iterative process, requiring the sustained attention of leadership and the institution of a mature change management process.
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... Appendixes
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Key Terms

  • security enterprise
  • burdensome practices
  • nnsa administrator
  • change management
  • operating contractors

  • management process
  • oversight requirements
  • clarifying interactions
  • top leadership
  • laboratory staff

  • sustained attention
  • congressional advisory
  • reform efforts
  • ongoing change
  • mature change

  • subjective debate
  • identify meaningful
  • establish feedback
  • security administration
  • staff expressed

  • current articulation
  • quantitative metrics
  • fairly assess
  • defining oversight
  • change efforts

  • considerable ambiguity
  • promulgate criteria
  • adding burden
  • systematic approach
  • national nuclear


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