The National Nuclear Security Administration Contractor Material Control and
Accountability Technical Qualification Program

The MC&A community across the DOE Complex has experienced significant turnover and attrition over the past decade at both the Federal and Contractor levels resulting in a marked decrease in the knowledge and experience level of the MC&A technical base. This caused a decrease in MC&A performance and, in turn, manifested in operational issues to include extended work stoppages with significant impact to programs (inability to meet deliverables on time). To address this problem by strengthening the MC&A Technical Base, NNSA and the National Training Center partnered with the NNSA national laboratories (LANL, LLNL, and SNL) to develop and implement a Technical Qualification Program (TQP) Pilot that would (1) create a Contractor analog to the NTC Federal Program Specific Qualification Standard for MC&A, (2) identify any training gaps needed to meet knowledge and mandatory performance requirements, (3) address those gaps by developing supplemental training, and (4) conduct the TQP Pilot in 2021 for MC&A professionals.