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Lab Management: Independent Studies

  • GAO-01-48
    Nuclear Weapons:
    Improved Management Needed to Implement Stockpile Stewardship
    Effectively DOE's Office of Defense Programs has a dysfunctional organization with unclear lines of authority that lead to a lack of accountability.

  • GAO-01-246
    Major Management Challenges and Program Risks:
    Department of Energy

    Overview of management problems at DOE.

  • RCED- 00-271
    Nuclear Nonproliferation:
    Concerns with DOE's Efforts to Reduce the Risks Posed by Russia's Unemployed Weapons Scientists

    Program to prevent unemployed Russian nuke scientists from taking their know-how to 'rogue' states is beset by lack of accounting, funding going to Russian scientists still working on weapons and security leaks. Chemical and biological projects may not be adequately reviewed by US officials prior to approval.

  • RCED-99-195
    Nuclear Weapons:
    DOE Needs to Improve Oversight of the $5 Billion Strategic Computing Initiative

    Weak management has hampered oversight of this $5 billion program.

  • RCED-99-159
    Dept. of Energy:
    Key Factors Underlying Security Problems at DOE Facilities

    Weak management at DOE underlies security-related problems, including DOE's inability to keep track of nuclear materials. GAO also found a serious lack of accountability at DOE and that "eforts to address security problems have languished for years without resolution or repercussions to those organizations responsible.''

  • RCED-99-54
    National Ignition Facility:
    Management and Oversight Failures Caused Major Cost Overruns and Schedule Delays

    This report describes the NIF as a project in disarray, with skyrocketing costs now expected to exceed $1.3 billion more than budgeted and an absence of independent reviews to ascertain whether NIF will ever work.

  • RCED-97-52
    Nuclear Weapons Capabilities of DOE's Limited Life Component Program to Meet Operational Needs
    (Not available electronically, can be ordered from GAO)
    General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports

  • RCED-96-216
    Nuclear Weapons Improvements Needed to DOE's Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Surveillance Program
    (Not available electronically, can be ordered from GAO)
    General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports

  • T-RCED-95-105
    Dept of Energy:
    Research and Agency Missions Need Re-evaluating

    DOE suffers from significant management problems, ranging from poor environmental management of the nuclear weapons complex, to major internal inefficiencies involving poor contractor oversight, inadequate information systems and workforce weaknesses.
    (Not available electronically, can be ordered from GAO)
    General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports

  • T-RCED-94-309
    Dept. of Energy:
    Government Property Worth Millions of Dollars is Missing

    DOE has "misplaced" millions in government property.
    (Not available electronically, can be ordered from GAO)
    General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports

  • T-RCED-95-128
    The National Labs Lack Clearly Defined Missions and Suffer from Poor Coordination.
    (Not available electronically, can be ordered from GAO)
    General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports

  • DOE/IG-0478
    Inspection on the Review of Scientific Integrity Issues at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
    The Office of Inspector General initiated an inspection into issues relating to allegations of scientific misconduct on the part of a research scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

  • HQ-L-00-02
    Polling by Lawrence Livermore Laboratory
    Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory retains Charlton Research of Walnut Creek, California to poll 600 people in five cities in the Bay Area.

  • DOE/IG-0471
    Summary Report on Inspection of Allegations Relating to the Albuquerque Operations Office Security Survey Process and the Security Operations' Self-Assessments at Los Alamos National Laboratory
    The Office of Inspector General received allegations regarding the conduct of security reviews at the Department of Energy's (DOE) Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). Specifically, it was alleged that DOE Albuquerque Operations Office (Albuquerque) management changed the ratings of annual Security Surveys of LANL security operations after members of the Albuquerque Security Survey team completed the survey.

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