Review of Emergency Management Exercise Program
Office of Enterprise Assessments
September 1, 2015
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August 2015
Review of Emergency Management Exercise Program
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) independent Office of Enterprise Assessments (EA) conducted a review of National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) Y-12 National Security Complex (Y-12) exercise program. This review complements EA’s severe event response review performed at Y-12 in 2014 to allow conclusions based on a more complete evaluation of the exercise program. The purpose of this EA assessment was to evaluate the exercise program’s effectiveness in validating, through tests and demonstrations, all elements of the Y-12 emergency management program and fostering continuous program improvements. EA performed this review from March 24 to April 9, 2015. EA also drew on its observations of Y-12 exercise planning and execution activities from the 2014 site-level exercise to reach conclusions for this review.