Year
2024
Abstract
| Whether comparing best practices, developing standardized resource guides, or evaluating emerging technological capabilities for radiation detectors, the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Energy Facility Contractors Group (EFCOG) Material Control and Accountability (MC&A) Subgroup provides an efficient and crucial venue for collaborative problem solving across the DOE National Security Enterprise. In a time when rising global tensions place an additional importance on MC&A efficiency and effectiveness, the 5 working groups within the EFCOG MC&A Subgroup structure allow U.S. national laboratories and federal program leads to communicate with the right subject matter experts all at the table. The MC&A program is established to deter and detect theft and diversion of nuclear material and these MC&A professionals are a critical line of defense between adversaries and the Accountable Nuclear Material that they safeguard. Accounting, Material Control, Measurements, Performance Testing, and Physical Inventory Working Groups divide the MC&A programmatic functions into focus areas that collaborate throughout the course of the year while identifying and delivering on each working group’s fiscal year objectives. This presentation will review some aspects of MC&A’s role across the DOE National Security Enterprise and how MC&A program experts team across the United States to come together to meet EFCOG’s mission of maximizing DOE and National Nuclear Security Administration mission success by sharing best practices and information to support management and operational excellence. Each site has unique operations and mission needs. When the sites come together, all of those diverse lenses of experiences can review common problems through different vantage points at the same time thereby creating greater efficiency. |