Engineering topics

Longenecker, John

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DOE OSTI2020

Panel Session 35: Strategies and Successes in Increasing Efficiency and Reducing Cost to Accelerate Work While Maintaining Operational Excellence (R1.5)

This panel focused on results-based project execution and ways to improve the effectiveness of large radioactive clean-up site operations while increasing efficiency and reducing cost. Panelists discussed best practices and lessons learned from their sites and projects as they work within budgetary, resource and technological constraints. Panelist with presentations: CNS Journey (Morgan Smith)

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DOE OSTI2019

Panel Session 33: Aligning Decision-Making to Deliver Timely Performance in Large Results-Based Programs

The panel focused on results-based project execution and ways to improve the effectiveness of program and project-specific decisions by gearing them to consistently achieving timely, cost-efficient, and sustainable results. Panelists discussed the complexities of making sound, actionable decisions in the face of budgetary, resource and technological constraints. Toward that end, the 10 panelists responded to the following questions: 1. What decision-making process has been most effective for you and your project team? 2. How effective are the incentives in your contract? 3. What would you be doing differently if your project were being executed on purely commercial terms? 4. Are your Contractor Assurance Programs effective? 5. Have we challenged industry and national laboratories to deliver revolutionary rather than evolutionary technologies to solve challenges? 6. What can we do to make stakeholder involvement more meaningful? 7. How do you apply lessons learned from events and issues like the Mixed Oxide Facility (MOX), the Plutonium Finishing Plant (PFP) event, and the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP) incident?.

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DOE OSTI2019

Panel Session 73: DOE-EM End-State Contracting

US DOE-EM's new end-state contracting model, the ID/IQ (Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quality) approach, is intended to give EM the flexibility to better define discrete scopes of work for site closure or end states. This is the result of several years of dialogue between industry and DOE about the way to collectively improve the way to do business more safely, quickly and cost effectively. This model requires a fine balance between incentives and clearly defined end states, with the ability for contractors and DOE to react quickly to respond to changes. By March 6, DOE and industry were one month into the new end-state contracting model with two requests for proposals issued and contractors responding. The purpose of the panel was to hear from DOE and industry about the status so far. DOE and the contractor community are generally supportive of the new model, but it will require closer partnership and a new mindset and approach among DOE, contractors, regulator and the workforce. This panel focused on the implementation of DOE EM's new End State Contracting Model, which uses a single-award ID/IQ approach to give EM the flexibility to better define discrete scopes of work for site closure or end states. The panelists provided their perspective on the initial implementation of the new approach and the path forward for upcoming opportunities utilizing this model. Presentation proposed: DOE EM End State Contracting (Tamara Miles, US DOE (USA))

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DOE OSTI2018

Panel reports session

This section brings together the reports of the 31 panel sessions listed below: - Avoiding the Human Capital Cliff in the DOE (PS22); - Implementing Technically-Based Cleanup; US DOE Balancing Regulatory and Fiscal Complexity (PS24); - United Kingdom - Remediation of Sellafield Legacy Ponds and Silos (PS25); - Aligning Decision-Making to Deliver Timely Results in Large Clean-up Programs (PS38); - Transition to Government Owned-Contractor Operated Site at Canadian Nuclear Laboratories (PS39); - Emerging Middle East Nuclear States' Status and Plans (PS40); - NPP Panel on Waste Management (PS41); - Robotics - International Innovations in Robotic Decommissioning Technology (PS43); - Fukushima Panel (1/2): Japan Fukushima Daiichi Decommissioning Update (PS54); - Fukushima Panel (2/2): Update on the Revitalization of Fukushima and the Surrounding Area (PS55); - US DOE LLW On-Site Disposal: LLW Disposal Facility Federal Review Group Review Process (PS56); - Challenges in DOE HLW Tank Management: Facility Start-up and Waste Disposition (PS57); - Waste Management Planning for Utility Small Modular Reactors (PS58); - US Nuclear Power Plant Waste Management - LLW Disposal Issues (PS59); - DOE-EM Robotics and Emerging Technologies Road-map (4/8) (PS60); - Graduating Students and New Scientists and Engineers - Wants and Needs - Are Companies Even Listening? (PS63); - U.S. Nuclear Robotics: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow (5/8) (PS74); - US DOE Mixed Waste: Proposals for Dealing with Problematic Waste Streams and Policy Changes (PS76); - Current and Emerging US NRC LLW Regulatory Topics (PS77); - Agency Perspectives (US and International) on the Use of Risk and Dose Assessment Tools (PS80); - Progress on Deep Repository Programs Around the World (PS81); - US DOE Procurement and Contracting Opportunities (PS82); - Collaboration across Borders to Deliver Cleanup and Decommissioning Challenges (PS93a); - DOE Mission Success through Application of Practices and Solutions (PS94); - Challenges in Cask Certification - International Perspectives (PS96); - Robotics: Leveraging Innovations in Science and Technology to Benefit Safety Performance (PS98); - DOE Panel: DOE EM Featured Office - Portsmouth/Paducah Project Office (PS109); - Robotics: Lessons Learned from Industrial Robotics Deployment that can be Applied to the Nuclear Field (PS110a); - Roundtable: DOE Radioactive Management - Energy Facility Contractors Group - Waste Management Working Group (EFCOG WMWG) (PS118); - Thursday Topical Session 'Management of Used Nuclear Fuel: Will the United States Reengage and Align with International Efforts' (PS124); - Remotely Operated Vehicles for Emergency, Disaster, and Operational Upset Response (PS125)

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