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GAO-24-105858 1 (2023-11-16)

handle is hein.gao/gaopkl0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Why This Matters Key Takeaways What is the Kansas City site's role in the nuclear security enterprise? Nonnuclear parts and components make up over 80 percent of the items in a nuclear weapon. The Kansas City National Security Campus (Kansas City site) in Missouri-managed and operated by a contractor-procures or produces most of these parts under the oversight of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), a separately organized agency within the Department of Energy (DOE). In 2019, we reported on management challenges in meeting the forecasted workload at the Kansas City site for known future production requirements.1 These management challenges included ensuring that the site had (1) sufficient production and administrative office space, (2) a sufficient workforce, (3) up-to- date production equipment, and (4) capable and reliable external suppliers. We also reported on the actions and strategies identified by NNSA officials and contractor representatives at the time to mitigate the effects of each of these management challenges. A Senate committee report accompanying a bill for the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 includes a provision for us to reevaluate the progress of the NNSA and the Kansas City site toward addressing identified risks in production and office space, employee hiring, equipment, external suppliers, and quality assurance practices.2 This report presents information on each of these issues. The Kansas City site's current workload demands exceed the site's nominal capacity and may continue to increase over the next two decades, based on NNSA's current program requirements and projections. The Kansas City site has taken actions to address the need for additional production and office space created by its workload demands as well as to address challenges related to its workforce, equipment, external suppliers, and quality assurance practices, resulting in some efficiency gains at the site. The Kansas City site may still face challenges in meeting projected workload demands in the following areas: obtaining a sufficient amount of production and office space, ensuring a sufficient contractor workforce, and maintaining a sufficient number of external suppliers. The Kansas City site is NNSA's primary site for procuring and producing nonnuclear parts and components for nuclear weapons and performing quality assurance checks on these parts. Such parts range from simple items-such as fasteners, polymers, plastics, foams, and other engineered materials-to more complex components such as machined parts, electronic microcircuits, radars, Page 1 GAO-24-105858 National Nuclear Security Administration Page 1 GAO-24-105858 National Nuclear Security Administration

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