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Appendix D: Summaries of the Study's Four Interim Reports
Appendix D: Summaries of the Study's Four Interim Reports
Pages 77-85
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Experience with change in many organizations has shown that successfully achieving and sustaining improvements to 1 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2017, Report 1 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., pp.
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The FY 2016 NDAA noted that correcting the long-standing governance and management problems afflicting NNSA and the nuclear security enterprise would require "personal engagement by senior leaders, a clear plan, and mechanisms for ensuring follow-through and accountability."2 Thus, an approach that explicitly prioritizes sustainable change is necessary to the accomplishment of NNSA's mission, especially in partnership with its M&O contractors. In this beginning stage of its study, the panel was impressed to see that long-standing governance and management issues in the nuclear security enterprise have received focused attention over the past 1 to 2 years.
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activities it reviewed, it strongly concludes that those activities are not rooted in an adequate foundation of strategic thinking. With the release of the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review and the appointment of a new NNSA Administrator, NNSA is faced with an excellent opportunity -- and challenge -- to move from a tactical to a strategic approach for executing 3 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2018, Report 2 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., pp.
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Recommendation 2.1. In response to the 2018 Nuclear Posture Review and other policy statements, the new NNSA Administrator should urgently and personally lead the development of a mission focused enterprise strategic plan that defines where the nuclear security enterprise needs to be in 10 years and what will be needed to get there.
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NNSA lacks systematic data collection -- tailored to inform well-specified questions in order to assess the scope and severity of its governance and management challenges and the effectiveness of its improvement efforts. The panel makes one specific recommendation regarding data collection, both because knowledge of workforce attitudes is fundamental and because relevant survey information may already exist: Recommendation 3.3.
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4 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2019, Report 3 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., pp.
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5 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2020, Report 4 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., pp.
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The change management leader should actively monitor progress toward institutionalization of these changes. The panel envisions that the challenge of institutionalizing high-level governance and management changes -- of driving those messages down into the entire enterprise workforce and adjusting processes and written guidance so that the desired culture becomes ingrained -- will require effort from managers across the enterprise.
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The change management leader should revisit those recommendations and the panel's other past guidance as a foundation for action. 9 National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2019, Report 3 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, The National Academies Press, Washington, D.C., p.
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