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GAO-02-93R 1 (2001-12-12)

handle is hein.gao/gaobaalwg0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Accountability * Integrity* Reliability United States General Accounting Office Washington, DC 20548 December 12, 2001 The Honorable Mac Thornberry Chairman The Honorable Ellen 0. Tauscher Ranking Minority Member Special Oversight Panel on Department of Energy Reorganization Committee on Armed Services House of Representatives Subject: NNSA Management: Progress in the Implementation of Title 32 Title 32 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (P.L. 106-65) established the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) as a semiautonomous agency within the Department of Energy (DOE) with responsibility for the nation's nuclear weapons, nonproliferation, and naval reactors programs. The Congress created NNSA to correct long-standing and widely recognized management problems at DOE, which had been underscored by significant cost overruns on major projects and security problems at the national laboratories. At your request, we reviewed NNSA's progress in implementing four key components of Title 32 intended to improve NNSA's management, including NNSA's reorganization efforts; integrated planning, programming, and budgeting improvements; use of its excepted service personnel authority; and efforts to improve its procurement practices. In presenting the results of our work, we agreed to identify for each of the four management areas (1) the underlying problems to be addressed, (2) the status of NNSA's progress, and (3) the management issues that still remain. We recognize that the implementation of Title 32 is an evolving and dynamic process; our observations on NNSA's progress are based on audit work conducted through December 2001. In summary, we found the following: While NNSA announced a new headquarters organization in May 2001, the reorganization did not contain a clear definition of the roles and responsibilities of the headquarters organizational units and did not address NNSA's field organization at all. More importantly, an overall organizational structure that clearly addresses long-standing issues such as the division of roles and responsibilities among headquarters offices and between headquarters and field staff still does not exist. NNSA recognizes the importance of these issues, and the acting Principal Deputy Administrator is leading an effort to address them. GAO-02-93R NNSA Progress in Implementing Title 32

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