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2 A Strategic Plan Is Needed for the Nuclear Security Enterprise
Pages 8-11

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... NNSA may expand this process to the other NNSA sites in the future. 3 NNSA's laboratory strategic planning initiative was adapted from the strategic planning process used by the DOE Office of Science.
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... Furthermore, this laboratory strategic planning is not guided by an NNSA-wide strategic plan, nor does NNSA use the laboratory strategic plans as a foundation for integrative planning. (The closest approximation to an NNSA strategic plan -- DOE's and NNSA's Enterprise Strategic Vision document from 2015 -- is primarily an operational plan focusing on specific projects, which does not truly provide the necessary strategic vision.
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... Creation of this enterprise strategic plan needs to be carried out with urgency. The 2018 Nuclear Posture Review cannot be effectively implemented until the enterprise strategic planning is developed, and so the nuclear security enterprise needs the guidance this strategy will provide.
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... However, these steps alone are insufficient; they need to be tied to a missionfocused, enterprise-wide concept of operations and strategic plan. In addition, NNSA should continue its current laboratory strategic planning initiative to develop a process with the laboratories that is truly strategic, rather than operational.
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