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
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General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports

RCED-96-216
Nuclear Weapons Improvements Needed to DOE's Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Surveillance Program
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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.
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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.
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General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports

T-RCED-95-128
The National Labs Lack Clearly Defined Missions and Suffer from Poor Coordination.
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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.