Department of Energy: Continued Actions Needed to Address Management Challenges
Abstract
DOEs NNSA is responsible for managing the nuclear weapons stockpile and supporting nuclear nonproliferation efforts. DOEs Office of Environmental Management works to decontaminate and decommission facilities contaminated from decades of nuclear weapons production. Over the last few years, GAO has reported on a wide range of challenges facing DOE and NNSA. These challenges contribute to GAOs continuing inclusion of DOEs management of major contracts and projects on the list of agencies and program areas that are at high risk of fraud, waste, abuse, and mismanagement. GAO also recently added the U.S. governments environmental liabilities to this list. This statement is based on 18 GAO reports issued from October 2014 through February 2018 and discusses (1) challenges related to the affordability of NNSA's nuclear modernization plans; (2) challenges related to DOEs environmental liabilities; (3) the status of DOEs efforts to improve its management of contracts, projects, and programs; and (4) challenges facing NNSAs nonproliferation program. With NNSA documents, GAO updated its prior work on the affordability of NNSAs modernization plans. GAO is not making any new recommendations. GAO has suggested that Congress consider taking certain actions and that DOE continue to act on the numerous recommendations GAO has made to address these challenges.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 14, 2018
- Accession Number
- AD1170622
Entities
People
- Amanda Kolling
- Antoinette Capaccio
- David C. Trimble
- Jonathan Gill
- Rick Gaber
- William Hoehn
Organizations
- United States Government Accountability Office