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National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) & other federal planning & budgeting documents & related articles
updated 4 Oct 2024

DOE/NNSA Site Facility Management Contracts, Oct 2023

NNSA Performance Evaluation Plans & Reports (PEPs & PERs)

DOE/NNSA Site Plans

LANL Historical Spending, Mar 2024

DOE Congressional Budget Requests (CBR)

FY2025
• Volume 1 - NNSA
• Volume 6 - Environmental Mgmt
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables

FY2024
• Volume 1
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables

FY2023
• Volume 1
• Weapons Activities
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• FY 2023 Budget request vs. FY 2022 Enacted

FY2022
• Volume 1
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• DOE fact sheet
• Summary Table
• Administration budget for warhead cores ("pits") jumps again, as Biden team struggles with Trump's rushed "double-factory" plan, press release, Jun 1, 2021

FY2021
• Volume 1
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• DOE fact sheet
• Administration seeks 49% increase in Los Alamos nuclear weapons activities, 33% plus-up for LANL overall, press release, Feb 23, 2020
• Bulletin 267: US plutonium pit production plans advance, part II: at least $25 billion in LANL life cycle costs omitted in past comparisons; more, Feb 8, 2020
• Plutonium pit budget request: another massive increase expected, IPFM blog post, Feb 4, 2020
• Bulletin 266: US plutonium pit production plans advance, with new requirements (part I), Jan 31, 2020

FY2020
• Volume 1
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• DOE fact sheet
• Trump requests a 12% increase in nuclear warhead spending, with wide variation between sites, LASG press release, Mar 20, 2019

FY2019
• Volume 1
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• DOE fact sheet
• LASG Bulletin 244: Nuclear budget bites, Feb 24, 2018
• Strangelove Lives: Trump Administration Requests Largest Spending Increase for Nuclear Warheads Since 1962, LASG press release, Feb 12, 2018

FY2018
• Volume 1
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• Congressional Budget Office: US Nuclear Forces To Cost $1.2 Trillion over 30 Years, press release, Oct 31, 2017

FY2017
• Volume 1
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• NNSA FY 2017 Budget Rollout presentation
• Trump DOE Budget Outline Accelerates Warhead Spending, press release, Mar 16, 2017
• The U.S. DOE’s Atomic Defense Budget for FY 2017, Robert Alvarez, IPS, Mar 2016
• Bulletin 216: More on the budget; the mountain of misinformation, Feb 11, 2016
• Administration’s Proposed Nuclear Warhead Budget, Its Highest Ever, press release, Feb 9, 2016
   — AEC/ERDA/DOE/NNSA Annual Spending for Nuclear Weapons Research, Development, Testing, & Production, LASG, Feb 2016
• Brief Informal Budget Heads-Up, press release, Feb 8, 2016

FY2016
• Volume 1
• Budget in Brief
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• DOE Sec. Moniz presentation
• Bulletin 200: Warhead budget bloat; U.S.-caused Ukraine catastrophe at the brink; hello peak oil, Feb 8, 2015
• Administration’s nuclear warhead design, production budget larger than Reagan and Bush, again, press release, Feb 2, 2015

FY2015
• Volume 1
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• Highlights
• Proposed DOE budget nearly flat in New Mexico, press release, Mar 20, 2014

FY2014
• Volume 1
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables
• Highlights

FY2013
• Revised Plutonium Strategy – Supplemental Information for the President’s FY 2013 Budget Request
• FY2013 Budget Guidance on the CMRR-NF – Memo from Donald Cook to Kevin Smith, LASO, & Dr. Charles McMillan, LANL, Feb 13, 2012
• Cuts, Consolidation, and Savings
• Volume 1
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables

FY2012
• Volume 1
• CMRR Project Data Sheet
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables

FY2011
• Volume 1
• CMRR Project Data Sheet
• Laboratory Tables
• State Tables

Department of Defense (DoD) Nuclear Posture Review (NPR)

• DoD National Defense Strategy, including the Nuclear Posture Review & the Missile Defense Review, Oct 27, 2022
• DoD NPR, Feb 2, 2018
• LASG press release
• Pre-decisional NPR, Jan 2018
• DoD NPR, Apr 2010
• DoD NPR, Jan 2002
   — Excerpts
   — Foreword
   — Briefing transcript
   — Slides

Department of Defense Nuclear Matters Handbook

• Nuclear Matters 2020, revised
• Nuclear Matters 2020
• Nuclear Matters 2016
• Nuclear Matters 2011
• Nuclear Matters 2008

National Defense Authorization Acts (NDAAs)

• Statutory plutonium pit production deadlines (50 U.S. Code § 2538a)
• FY 2022 NDAA (section 3111)
• FY 2021 NDAA (section 3114)
• FY 2020 NDAA (section 3116)
• FY 2019 NDAA (section 3120)
• FY 2018 NDAA (section 3141)
• FY 2016 NDAA (section 3140)
• FY 2015 NDAA (section 3112 & 3132)

NNSA Strategic Integrated Roadmap 2020-2044

NNSA/DOE STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP & MANAGEMENT PLAN (SSMP)

• FY 2025 SSMP, Biennial Plan Summary, Sep 2024
• FY 2024 SSMP, Nov 2023
• FY 2023 SSMP, Apr 2023
• FY 2022 SSMP, Mar 2022
• FY 2021 SSMP, Dec 2020
• FY 2020 SSMP, Jul 2019
• FY 2019 SSMP, Oct 2018, Biennial Plan summary
• FY 2018 SSMP, Nov 2017
• FY 2017 SSMP, Mar 31, 2016
• FY 2016 SSMP, Mar 16, 2015
• FY 2015 SSMP, Apr 10, 2014
• FY 2014 SSMP, Jun 2013
• FY 2012 SSMP, Apr 15, 2011
• FY2011 SSMP, May 2010, summary

SSMP Section 1251 reports pursuant to the FY2010 NDAA

• FY2011 Stockpile Stewardship Plan, Annex A, May 2010
• FY2011 Biennial Plan & Budget Assessment on the Modernization and Refurbishment of the Nuclear Security Complex, Annex D, May 2010
• Update to the NDAA of FY2010 Section 1251 Report, "New START Treaty Framework and Nuclear Force Structure Plans," Nov 2010

Memorandum of Agreement between the DoD & DOE re: Modernization of the U.S. Nuclear Infrastructure, May 3, 2010. Obtained by the Union of Concerned Scientists. [Los Alamos Study Group's FOIA request, Jul 30, 2010, never fulfilled.]

DOE/NNSA FY 2025- FY2029 Prevent, Counter, and Respond - NNSA's Plan to Reduce Global Nuclear Threats, Report to Congress, Sep 2024

DOE/NNSA FY 2022 - FY 2026 Prevent, Counter, and Respond: NNSA’s Plan to Reduce Global Nuclear Threats, Report to Congress, Dec 2021

DOE/NNSA FY 2010-2014 Supplement to the Stockpile Stewardship Plan, Dec 2009

CONGRESSIONAL BUDGET OFFICE (CBO) reports

  • Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2023 to 2032, Jul 2023
  • Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2021 to 2030, May 2021
  • The Potential Costs of Expanding US Strategic Nuclear Forces if the New START Treaty Expires, CBO, Aug 2020
  • Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2019 to 2028, Jan 2019
  • Approaches for Managing the Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2017 to 2046, Oct 2017
  • Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2017 to 2026, Feb 2017
  • Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2015 to 2024, Jan 2015
  • Projected Costs of U.S. Nuclear Forces, 2014 to 2023, Dec 19, 2013

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