Former Department of Defense official Steven Ho will head up the National Nuclear Security Administration’s new Office of Program Review and Analysis, which is designed to strengthen the NNSA’s budgeting and planning processes. The just-created office was established as a result of recent collaboration between the NNSA and DoD’s Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation group, where Ho spent the last eight years. The NNSA said he helped restructure a handful of major defense acquisition programs, and most recently led the CAPE’s review of the B61 life extension program. “With the creation of PR&A, we can significantly improve how we plan and analyze our budget requirements to ensure the best use of our resources,” acting NNSA Administrator Neile Miller said in a statement. “Modernizing our operations means rethinking old ideas about what works and what doesn’t. Steve Ho and our new Office of Program Review and Analysis will be an independent broker conducting analysis for NNSA programs and cross-cutting issues and translating that analysis into options.” Miller first publicly unveiled plans for the new office at the Nuclear Deterrence Summit in February. The office will mirror DoD efforts to prioritize its needs, providing NNSA leadership the “ability to make decisions from a set of well-developed and vetted options, while also ensuring that NNSA’s work reflects the Administration’s priorities and the President’s budget request.”