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NNSA continues to pursue its current pit production goals annually at the Los Alamos National Laboratory and at the Savannah River Site. This session will discuss current updates, expectations and progress for pit production schedules.  

Gain insights into the operational challenges and strategic initiatives at the (NNSA) sites. This session will feature key leaders from various NNSA facilities who will share their perspectives on managing site operations, maintaining safety standards, and advancing mission-critical objectives. Attendees will hear about the latest developments in site management, collaboration across facilities, and the innovative approaches being employed to ensure national security and technological advancement and guidelines to assist sites to move into the next phase.

A thriving domestic nuclear fuel cycle is critical for civilian nuclear energy, but also has important implications for national security. This panel will discuss strategies for revitalizing America’s nuclear fuel supply chain — from mining to conversion to enrichment – to meet unobligated national security needs as well as civilian requirements.

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In an increasingly interconnected world, the threats of terrorism and the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMDs) pose significant challenges to global security. This session will explore the critical intersection of counterterrorism and nonproliferation, focusing on strategies to prevent the acquisition and use of WMDs by state and non-state actors.

The National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) infrastructure modernization initiative is a decades-long effort to modernize and expand the facilities and infrastructure needed to produce nuclear weapons. The initiative uses data-driven and risk informed decision making tools to ensure efficiency and repeatable results for construction projects, repurposing, upgrading current capabilities including, uranium enrichment, plutonium pit production, lithium processing, and tritium processing, are reliable for the future nuclear stockpile.

Digital engineering will help the Nuclear Security Enterprise meet the crucial operational needs of nuclear deterrence, as well as other mission areas that deliver critical systems to the nation. At last year’s event, NNSA stated that digital engineering was a top priority and since then, it established a Digital Transformation Steering Group to address both challenges and solutions for the implementation.

Digital engineering can be applied to many capabilities that facilitate increased collaboration while reducing the time required to execute programs, by shifting away from traditional and cumbersome paper-based documentation. For example, Sandia National Laboratories experienced increased efficiency, achieved higher performing and better optimized systems across all platforms with digital engineering. Perspectives from the NNSA and from other stakeholders working at specific sites will provide an update to this top priority.

Plagued by staffing shortages that pose threats to production goals, cleanup initiatives and national security implications, NNSA has developed a workforce planning process to help ensure that future budget requests better reflect staffing needs. These processes include, recruitment, emergency preparedness and multi-year workforce projections and plans, including identifying the professions that are projected to be in the highest demand.

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Join our national laboratory weapons program directors to discuss a non-classified overview of current weapons programs, the challenges of design and maintenance projects dealing with system alterations, life-extension, stewardship, the impact and consequences of recapitalization, schedule compression due to mission expansion, and initiatives for improved mission delivery.

This session will discuss the ongoing policies to protect the nation from nuclear threats, build stronger international partnerships and bring new ideas and technologies to the global nonproliferation initiatives.

Join this session to hear the latest perspectives on emerging technology, and digital innovation, the evolving global environment, and force modernization for STRATCOM’s global mission.