NNSA RELEASES FY2011 PERFORMANCE REVIEWS FOR SIX CONTRACTORS

The National Nuclear Security Administration has released the first set of Fiscal Year 2011 Performance Evaluation Reviews under a new policy that allows the contractor report cards to be shared with the public. The Department of Energy earlier this year reversed a policy that had kept the reviews hidden, and reviews for six NNSA contractors were released this week under a Freedom of Information Act request by NW&M Monitor: Los Alamos National Security, LLC; Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC; B&W Y-12; Savannah River Nuclear Solutions (the NNSA portion of work at the site); National Security Technologies, LLC; and Kansas City Plant contractor Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies. The Performance Evaluation Reviews can be viewed here.

 

The agency said that FY2011 PERs for Sandia Corp. and B&W Pantex are still undergoing security reviews and are expected to be released later this month. Earlier PERs, dating back to the agency’s 2009 decision to not release them, will also be released in the coming months, the agency said. Deputy Energy Secretary Dan Poneman decided to standardize the release of the reviews (the Office of Science made them available, while NNSA and the Office of Environmental Management did not) in the face of stiff opposition from watchdog groups, media outlets and Congress. One nuclear activist group, Nuclear Watch New Mexico, sued the NNSA last week to compel the agency to release the reviews.