Los Alamos National Laboratory and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Plutonium Sustainment Monthly Program Report September 2012
In September of 2012 the Plutonium Sustainment program at LANL completed or addressed the following high-level activities: 1) Completed assembly, inspection, packing, and approvals for Pollux. Completed shipment to DAF in early October in accordance with the Gemini Core Team’s schedule. 2) Delivered the draft Program Implementation Plan and revised repeatedly. 3) Met with Kansas City Plant staff to “kick-off” the non-nuclear pit-component production mission. All MRT L2 Milestones 4195-4198 or the relevant PBIs associated with Plutonium Sustainment have been met and evidence packages submitted. The year-end budget/performance indices were 0.96 (S.P.I.) and 1.00 (C.P.I.). Table 1 identifies all Baseline Change Requests (BCRs) that were initiated, in process, or completed during the month. The earned value metrics overall for LANL are within acceptable thresholds, so no high-level recovery plan is required. Note that the planned (budget) and earned value for September includes planned carryover holdbacks (no allocation) with no associated FY12 costs. This has a minor (positive) impact on S.P.I. and a significant (positive) impact on the C.P.I. For Pu Sustainment overall, the C.P.I. in September neglecting the $10.75M holdback is 0.90. Likewise, the C.P.I. for FY12 is 1.004. With the facility infrastructure element removed, the C.P.I. in September becomes 0.92. Likewise, the C.P.I. for FY12 is 0.992. Again neglecting the holdback, the S.P.I. numbers for Pu Sustainment overall are 0.94 (Sept) and 0.96 (FY12) and with the facility infrastructure element removed 0.95 (Sept) and 0.95 (FY12).