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The U.S. Department of Energy's Facility Reuse at the Rocky Flats Environmental Technology Site

Foreign Research Reactor (FRR) Spent Nuclear Fuel (SNF) Acceptance Program

Pit Disassembly and Conversion Demonstration Environmental Assessment and Research and Development Activities

Pit Disassembly and Conversion Demonstration Environmental Assessment and Research and Development Activities

Amended Record of Decision (August 13, 1998) for DOE/EIS-0229: Storage and Disposition of Weapons-Usable Fissile Materials.

The Federal emphasis on reinventing Government and the end of the Cold War have driven change at the Department of Energy. In the midst of this change, the Department’s Information Architecture Program was initiated. Over the past several years, the Department realized that information management and strategic planning efforts must focus on the utility and management of information, rather than management of technology. The importance of an information architecture was also recognized by Congress through the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. This law required the establishment of a Chief Information Officer position in each Federal agency with the responsibility to develop and implement an integrated information architecture. The objective of this audit was to determine whether the Department had developed and implemented an Information Technology Architecture.

Review of the U.S. Department of Energy's Information Management Systems

The 1993 National Performance Review Report recommended performance measurement and benchmarking against industry standards as tools to help improve Government operations. This recommendation was one of the bases for the Department's development of its Improvement Plan for Reducing Architect-Engineering Costs. This plan directed operations offices to manage to a standard architect and engineering (A-E) cost as a percentage of construction. Based on this initiative, the objective of our audit was to determine whether A-E costs at Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos) and Sandia National Laboratories (Sandia) were reasonable in comparison with industry standards.actors.

Architect and Engineering Costs at Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories