create our future strengthen the core

Performance Improvement Strategy FY13–FY17

Create Our FutureStrengthen the Core

Carl A. Beard DatePrincipal Associate Director, Operations and BusinessContractor Assurance Officer

Charles F. McMillan DateDirector, Los Alamos National Laboratory and President of Los Alamos National Security, LLC (LANS)

Summary

This document presents the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) Multiyear Strategy for Performance Improvement for FY13-FY17 in accordance with Clause H-3 Contractor Multiyear Strategy for Performance Improvement of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) Contract No. DE-AC52-06NA25396.

“The Contractor shall develop a multiyear strategy that details (1) its planned efforts and expected accomplishments by year, to continuously improve its management and performance at the Laboratory, and (2) the planned efforts and contributions of its Parent Organization.

The multiyear strategy shall also address planned efforts to (1) enhance Contractor communications, cooperation and integration with the NNSA Weapons Complex, with emphasis on Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; and, (2) contribute to overall NNSA Weapons Complex improvements in performance. The listing of the Contractor’s planned efforts and expected accomplishments from its offer in response to Solicitation No. DE-RP52-05NA25396 for FY06 (June 1, 2006 – September 30, 2006, partial year) and FY07 shall be addressed in the initial multiyear strategy. Subsequent annual updates shall be submitted to the Contracting Officer no later than May 15th of each year. Performance measures for these planned efforts and expected accomplishments may be considered for inclusion in the Contract’s Performance Evaluation Plan.”

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LANL uses a single, strategic framework for aligning both organizational and individual work (depicted below). The framework begins with the Laboratory Mission, Vision, and Values and is accomplished through 13 Laboratory Goals to achieve a reliable, responsive Laboratory that anticipates, innovates, and delivers science that matters. The Multiyear Strategy for Performance Improvement sets forth for each Laboratory Goal the rationale for the goal, the vision for success and the multiyear strategies and objectives for the next five years. The multiyear strategies and objectives set the context for the annual development of Laboratory Commitments, which are specific and measurable actions to improve performance and move the Laboratory towards its Goals. The Multiyear Strategy for Performance Improvement does not include the next fiscal year’s annual Commitments. The Commitments are closely aligned with the next fiscal year’s budget which is developed later in the year.

To realize our vision, we must understand the synergy between our mission, science, and operational effectiveness/efficiency. To focus on this integration we have arranged the 13 Laboratory Goals to highlight the two themes that drive our multiyear strategic performance improvement approaches:

Create Our Future — Investing strategically in science and technology critical to solving current and future national security challenges.

Strengthen the Core — Providing operational excellence in support of our role as the premier national security science Laboratory.

Mission, Vision, Values

Laboratory Goals

Multiyear Strategies

Multiyear Objectives

Annual Laboratory Commitments

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LANL Mission

As the premier national security science Laboratory, our mission is to develop and apply science, technology, and engineering solutions to

• ensurethesafety,security,andreliabilityof the U.S. nuclear deterrent,

• reduceglobalthreats,and

• solveemergingnationalsecuritychallenges.

LANL Vision

Los Alamos National Laboratory is the national security science laboratory of choice. Achieving this vision requires unparalleled science and engineering innovation, strong leadership, and excellence in operations and management.

LANL Core Values

How we accomplish our work reflects our Laboratory core values.

• servicetoournation,

• ethicalconductandpersonalaccountability,

• excellenceinourwork,and

• mutualrespectandteamwork.

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• Reliable Nuclear Deterrence: Assess the safety, reliability and performance of LANL weapons systems.

• Future Weapons Complex: Achieve NNSA’s Complex transformation for the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile and meet national security requirements.

• Global Security: Provide early identification, creative maturation, and timely delivery of scientific solutions to technically challenging security issues.

• National Security Science Laboratory: Become the premier capabilities-based national security science laboratory.

• Energy Security: Develop sustainable solutions that allow resilient adaptation to growing global energy demand.

• Safe, Secure Workplace: Make safety and security integral to every activity we do.

• Exemplary Information Security: Reduce risks while providing seamless information services.

• Environmental Stewardship: Establish excellence in environmental stewardship.

• Responsive Infrastructure: Provide efficient, compliant, and secure infrastructure supported with disciplined operations.

• Performance-based Management: Enable mission and operational excellence.

• Business Excellence: Deliver cost-effective business systems that meet LANL’s business needs.

• Effective Communication and Community Programs: Demonstrate our value as a national laboratory, as an employer, and as a good corporate citizen.

• Successful Workforce: Cultivate a work environment where employees are empowered to achieve success.

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Create Our Future and Strengthen the CoreThe 13 LANL Goals fall into two broad categories —

The first section, Create Our Future, captures mission and science goals while the second section, Strengthen the Core, includes operations and business goals that enable the mission and science.

The specific requirements of Clause H-3 are handled in the following manner:

4. Contribution to overall NNSA Weapons Complex improvements—LANL’s second goal, The Future Weapons Complex, is focused on NNSA Complex Transformation strategies.

The Multiyear Strategy for Performance Improvement is a forward-looking document. Reporting on accomplishments is as follows:

• AccomplishmentsagainsttheinitialLANSproposalperformanceimprovement commitments are reported in LA-UR-07-7754

• Accomplishments against FY08 institutional performance improvement commitments are reported in LA-UR-08-07428




1. LANL planned efforts and accomplishments—multiyear strategies, objectives, and timelines for each of the 13 Goals.

2. Planned efforts of the parent organization Los Alamos National Security (LANS) —where expertise, systems, tools, and best practices from the parent organization are critical to executing the multiyear strategies and achieving the multiyear objectives, the parent organization contribution is explicitly cited. Otherwise, the parent organization contributions are integrated into the multiyear strategies and objectives and therefore not explicitly cited.

3. Emphasis on cooperation with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL)—integrated within the five mission goals grouped under Create our Future. Cooperation with LLNL is assured through common members on the Boards of Governors for LANS and Lawrence Livermore National Security (LLNS), regular meetings of the LANL and LLNL Laboratory Directors and their executive leadership teams, and coordination of the LANL and LLNL Multiyear Strategies for Performance Improvement.

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Goal: Reliable Nuclear DeterrenceAssess the safety, reliability and performance of LANL weapons systems.

Champion: Brett Knapp

Rationale and Vision of Success: LANL is an indispensable national security resource whose core component of work is to sustain the safety, reliability, and performance of weapons systems in the stockpile. We provide scientific leadership for the stockpile stewardship mission that remains technically challenging and vital to the nation.

Strategies Objectives FY13 FY14 FY15 FY16 FY17

Preserve and enhance the science, engineering, and manufacturing base to sustain the stockpile

Develop a physics-based model for initial conditions for boost by the end of FY15

Conduct activities to support W76-1 and B61-12 Life Extension Program (LEP) deliverables

Conduct activities to support development and execution of future system LEPs (B61-12 and W78-1 and 88-1, specifically)

Complete physics-based models for boost by the end of FY18

Demonstrate the value of the Dual Axis Radiographic Hydrodynamic Test (DARHT) facility as measured by delivered milestones

Continuously assess the LANL-designed warheads in the stockpile for safety, reliability, and performance

Coordinate with LLNL to implement and execute the Independent Nuclear Weapons Assessment Process (INWAP)

Address stockpile problems within three years of discovery

Develop future stockpile stewards by ensuring continuity of knowledge and skills

Support the student and postdoctoral fellowship programs in physics, chemistry, energetic materials, material science, computing, engineering, and manufacturing to provide candidates for employment in the weapons programDevelop critical skills matrix to understand long-term needs to maintain a viable nuclear enterprise and plan for long-term matching of those skills with supporting programs

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Integrate weapons program activities to address ongoing and future needs of the complex

Collaborate with LLNL and SNL in an integrated experimental plan utilizing the National Ignition Facility (NIF) for Defense Programs relevant physics studies

Implement a national strategy for high-explosives research and development with LLNL, SNL, and Pantex to maximize collaboration, while preserving competition, peer review, technical diversity, and an intelligent overlap of capabilities

Continue to partner with NNSA and nuclear weapons labs and sites on future hydrodynamic testing consolidation

Implement by FY20 the transformation changes envisioned by NNSA

Continue integrated nuclear planning efforts to support program, operations, and project development, decision processes and execution

Integrate Pu strategy with LLNL to maximize Pit production and plutonium science without CMRR

Reduce the nuclear facility footprint from the 2000 level by 50% by the end of FY20

Design and construct new or upgraded facilities – to provide mission capabilities for LANL and the weapons complex through the end of FY20

Goal: The Future Weapons ComplexAchieve NNSA’s Complex transformation for the nation’s nuclear weapons stockpile and meet national security requirements.

Champion: Brett Knapp

Rationale and Vision of Success: The NNSA vision for Complex Transformation is to achieve a smaller, safer, more secure, and less expensive enterprise that leverages the scientific and technical capabilities of our workforce and meets national security requirements. Our role is to be the Center of Excellence for Nuclear Design and Engineering, the Center of Excellence for Plutonium Science and Manufacturing, and a Center for High Performance Computing.

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Goal: Global SecurityProvide early identification, creative maturation, and timely delivery of scientific solutions to technically challenging security issues.

Goal Champion: Terry Wallace

Rationale and Vision of Success: Our vision is to globally reduce threats to the security of the United States and our allies. LANL can leverage unique strengths to advance national security missions, while driving excellence in our core capabilities and ensuring we complement the core nuclear weapons mission.

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Deliver solutions to the most technically demanding and urgent national-security challenges, focusing on multiyear programs and client partnerships.

Draw on its unparalleled people and capabilities and emphasize technically challenging R&D programs that demand world-class science, technology, and engineering to keep the laboratory at the forefront of science.

Leverage its long history of national security service and focus in areas that already are strengths of the Laboratory and will challenge those strengths in different ways that drive their evolution.

Fully apply all capabilities found in its multidisciplinary base by organizing the GS program structure around product lines that focus the Laboratory’s capabilities into broad national-security topics or that are directed at a specific area of program development opportunity.

Ensure that GS program execution complements LANL’s nuclear weapons mission

Serve as an integrating national security science Laboratory for the nation

Drive exploitation of scientific discovery to ensure the nation’s continued technical superiority

Protect vital national security secrets while meeting applicable safety, security, environmental, and other compliance requirements

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Deliver capabilities in critical development areas that strengthen programs

Utilize Institutes/Centers to develop and implement strategies that support Science Pillars/Grand Challenges, and maintain the strength and competency of the workforce

Support LANSCE initiatives to sustain the ability to probe materials, make precision nuclear cross-section measurements, and perform proton radiography in support of stockpile stewardship

Attract, motivate, recruit, and retain best-in-class talent

Execute the strategies to sustain post-doctoral programs at a level and with the quality of staff, that supports current and future Laboratory needs

Utilize Institutes and Centers to establish external partnerships with universities and build recruiting pipelines for students and post-docs in capabilities required for LANL’s missions

Sustain key capabilities needed for program missions in stockpile stewardship, global security, and energy security missions through strategic hires and integration

Demonstrate excellence in the Three Pillars of Science: Experimental science focused on materials for the future; Information science and technology focused on enabling integrative and predictive science; and Science of Signatures for enduring national needs

Further align the integrated science for the Laboratory program missions in stockpile stewardship, global security and energy security on the platform of the three pillars

Mature institutional investment in the three pillars

Goal: National Security Science LaboratoryBecome the premier capabilities-based national security science laboratory.

Champion: Alan Bishop

Rationale and Vision of Success: When the country has a complex scientific or technical national security issue, the experience and capabilities at LANL will be called upon. Our vision is to be the premier National Security Science Laboratory — the training and proving ground for scientists and engineers looking for the toughest challenges facing our nation and the world.

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Goal: Energy and National SecurityDevelop sustainable solutions that allow resilient adaptation to growing global energy demand and emerging threats to national security.

Goal Champion: Alan Bishop

Rationale and Vision of Success: The growth of global energy demand and emerging threats in this century will create significant new national security challenges. Los Alamos will develop transformative new science and technologies and significantly enhance and extend the use of current technologies in a manner that is sustainable and that mitigates the negative environmental, social, and national security impacts. Implicit in this vision is the development of the capability to measure, model, and predict, in a quantifiable manner, the specific impacts of energy choices on climate and their cascading effects on the environment and society. Also, to further integrate the application of science capability in a manner that optimizes the use of Laboratory scientific resources to achieve sustainable solutions for the consolidated set of national security missions.


Strengthen LANL’s capabilities in energy security

Leverage and enhance capabilities vital for the Laboratory’s national security missions through responsive pursuit of both Work for Others and Cooperative Research and Development Agreements (CRADAs)

Focus LANL’s research community on (a) sustainable nuclear energy, (b) mitigating impact of energy demand growth, (c) developing materials and concepts for clean energy, and (d) emerging threats to national security

Develop industrial partnerships to deliver innovations across a broader program base

Sustainable nuclear energy

Establish and execute interdisciplinary programs linking nuclear energy utilization, nonproliferation, and waste management

Build and apply modeling and simulation capabilities to enhance and accelerate science and technology development and provide predictive understanding of nuclear energy systems

Apply insights in predictive science-based repository design to develop new waste management options for the nation

Develop advanced experimental capabilities and materials with controlled functionality for enhanced performance in extremes of temperature, electric/magnetic fields, and neutron fluxes


Mitigate the impact of energy demand growth

Establish and execute interdisciplinary programs linking climate modeling/monitoring to infrastructure systems analysis

Develop and employ the next generation of high-resolution, low-uncertainty global and regional climate prediction and climate impact models, including the development of novel modeling and data fusion and assimilation techniques that quantify and reduce uncertainty

Develop transformational monitoring and measurement techniques to quantify, attribute and report changes in the fluxes, exchange and sequestration of greenhouse gases, aerosols, and other emissions from natural and anthropogenic sources at local, regional, and global scales

Develop materials and concepts for clean energy

Develop cost-effective and efficient technologies to enable efficient utilization of conventional and unconventional fossil resources

Strategically leverage and continue to deploy science and technology to increase production of algal biomass, improve the efficiency of lipid extraction, and to develop new and alternative chemical conversion processes for the production of biofuels

Transition traditionally strong materials-based programs in hydrogen, fuel cells, and superconductivity to next generation programs in energy generation and transmission, and storage

Integrated application of science and engineering capability

Utilize the successes and strengths of energy and global security programs to develop an integrated approach for capturing and managing DOE, WFO-NFE, and WFO-OFA work

Develop and implement strategic organizational alignments and redefinitions as appropriate to facilitate improved integration for utilization of the Laboratory’s science and engineering capability

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Goal: Safe, Secure WorkplaceMake safety and security integral to every activity we do.

Goal Champion: Carl Beard

Rationale and Vision of Success: Safe, secure mission delivery is required for LANL to be a reliable, responsive Laboratory. We sustain robust safety and security systems that reduce risk while providing exemplary service and productivity to accomplish our mission.


Ensure a sustainable safety and security infrastructure by mitigating initial risks

Reduce nuclear facility risk by implementing all Documented Safety Analysis (DSAs), revised to meet current configurations and NNSA requirements, for all operating nuclear facilities

Reduce criticality safety risk through work assessment and development of fully compliant documentation

At non-nuclear, low-hazard facilities, implement a consistent methodology for addressing Safety Basis documentation requirements

At non-nuclear, low-hazard facilities, implement consistent MAR tracking processes

Increase and maintain the awareness level of Laboratory leaders/workers regarding their responsibilities during workplace violence events

Maintain “high-security effectiveness” at TA-55 following completion of NMSSUP II construction and implementation of the 2012 Graded Security Protection Policy

Reduce classified document holdings by destroying at least 250,000 documents each year

Develop and practice “active shooter” response plans in coordination with LASO and county/state/federal agencies to enhance the Laboratory’s ability to minimize adverse impacts and speed the resumption of normal operations

Prevent LANL worker injuries and illnesses

Continue the integration of Human Performance Improvement (HPI) principles into Laboratory processes and expand the implementation of Behavior Based Safety (BBS) initiatives across the Laboratory

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Ensure a sustainable safety and security infrastructure by mitigating initial risks

Complete ISM/CFR 851 implementation of Pressure Safety, Explosive Safety Programs, and NFPA 70E

Continue evaluations and improvements of 851 program implementation

Improve the formality, consistency and effectiveness of work control

Enhance capabilities to identify and counter internal and external threats to the institution and its workers

Continue to strengthen management involvement and employee participation in safety and security

Continue the implementation of the five VPP core elements with focus on those opportunities for improvement identified in all VPP evaluations

Attain VPP STAR recognition and continue to maintain recognition through sustained safety improvements

Actively support Laboratory Safety Improvement Plans (SIP) through management and worker engagement and support of the following Worker Safety and Security Team (WSST) Initiatives• All managers demonstrate the importance of safety and security and clearly communicate a consistent

set of priorities and expectations to all employees• All managers solicit improvement ideas and empower action• All employees are advocates for safety and security• All employees are encouraged and supported to participate in local and institutional safety and

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Goal: Exemplary Information SecurityReduce risks while providing seamless information services.

Goal Champion: Tom Harper

Rationale and Vision of Success: A consolidated institutional approach to information technology (IT) supports the most efficient management of programmatic resources while providing consistent protection to our IT infrastructure across the Laboratory. Information security (IS) is woven seamlessly into every aspect of Laboratory IT.



Meet the Laboratory’s diverse mission needs with a stable, agile, secure computing environment, balancing risk and value

Be responsive to mission needs

Consolidate and leverage single, authoritative data sources

Continuously improve IT workforce

Define a realistic lifecycle for IT services and infrastructure

Manage mission essential hardware and software under a centralized governance structure

Increase the Laboratory’s workforce productivity and competitive position

Continuously leverage new technology and services to improve workforce productivity

Enable staff collaboration and mobility

Ensure consistent, intuitive interfaces, reducing time spent interfacing with IT systems and compliance activities

Support the Federal Cloud initiative, where it is in line with Laboratory mission needs

Leverage and mine research relevant to IT and IT security for innovative solutions to diverse mission needs


Maximize the value generated by IT use generated by IT

Align investment and accountability with mission need

Realize significant savings in IT

Provide maximum customer value

Become recognized as a model for superior information security practices

Improve institutional ability by implementing a risk-based information security model to balance risk with value

Enhance our ability to anticipate, detect, and respond to a wide variety of both known and unknown threats

Enhance security performance by improving security usability

Achieve and maintain recognition as an information security leader in the NNSA complex


Goal: Environmental StewardshipEstablish excellence in environmental stewardship.

Goal Champion: Michael Graham

Rationale and Vision of Success: The Laboratory will continue effective environmental stewardship by cleaning up contaminated sites in compliance with the New Mexico Environment Department (NMED) Consent Order, performing beyond regulatory expectations, and minimizing impacts on natural resources.


Deploy effective and efficient solutions to continuously improve environmental performance

Maintain ISO 14001 certification of the LANL Environmental Management System (EMS) and demonstrate progress in implementing EMS institutional objectives and targets

Begin implementation of a 50-year Environmental Stewardship Plan

Perform technically sound and fiscally optimized environmental cleanup consistent with NMED expectations

Complete the Framework Agreement milestones as established with NMED, including removal of specified TRU waste volume

Complete the Consent Order environmental cleanup deliverables as established through annual work planning with NMED

Demonstrate full compliance with environmental regulations and requirements

Maintain an improved environmental compliance posture as evidenced by (a) the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) findings, (b) storm water construction general permit findings, (c) Individual Permit and Multi-sector General Permit Implementation and (d) air emissions tracking



Modernize facilities to align with mission needs while balancing available investment funding and optimal utilization

Execute critical facility construction projects according to approved baselines for quality, scope, cost and schedule

Develop, fund and execute project plans required to replace aging physical security infrastructure

Operate facilities to be consistently safe, secure, and environmentally compliant

Complete implementation of Formality of Operations including Conduct of Operations (FY09), Conduct of Maintenance (FY12), Conduct of Engineering (FY12), and Conduct of Training (FY14) at all LANL facilitiesReview and revise qualification standards for positions identified in the TIM as appropriate and necessary

Replace obsolete, non-compliant facility fire protection systems at identified facilities

Develop and implement a plan to evaluate HEPA filter plenums in rad facilities

Ensure that our infrastructure is managed effectively to accomplish DOE mission by providing guidance and making decisions that support and ensure sustainable infrastructure with optimal use of assets and resources

Finalize and implement the approved elements of the Long Range Development Plan developed in FY10 to demonstrate infrastructure revitalization and improved use

Meet site sustainability and energy management goals for energy intensity, water use, greenhouse gas emissions and high-performance sustainable buildings

Goal: Responsive InfrastructureProvide efficient, compliant, and secure infrastructure supported with disciplined operations.


Rationale and Vision of Success: We overcome an aging infrastructure to maintain world class science and technology. We provide new software and tracking tools coupled with standardized operations to make maintenance and repairs easier and more cost effective, plus consolidate or eliminate underused space to boost cost effectiveness of Laboratory facilities. We anticipate the physical infrastructure needed to address vital national research and development capabilities and provide a physical infrastructure that is safe, secure, environmentally compliant and efficient.


Goal: Performance-Based ManagementEnable mission and operational excellence.


Rationale and Vision of Success: An effective performance-based management system is critical to achieving safe, secure, efficient, and sustainable mission delivery. We deploy management processes, tools, and practices to enable Laboratory managers and employees to anticipate, manage, and continuously improve performance that accelerates progress towards accomplishing the Laboratory Vision to be the premier national security science laboratory.


Enable improved performance at the Laboratory

Increase productivity and reduce work inefficiencies by deploying institutional capabilities for process management and process improvement

Deploy an effective and efficient institutional quality assurance program

Improve the use and effectiveness of institutional management and assurance systems

Anticipate and manage risk at the institutional level

Improve the sustainability of corrective actions in response to reportable events

Design and deploy an institutional trending and analysis capability to predict emerging performance challenges

Support NNSA in achieving its vision for transformational governance and oversight

Align performance evaluation plan (PEP) and institutional performance metrics

Successfully complete the validation and affirmation of the Line Oversight-Contractor Assurance System (LOCAS)

Support an efficient and integrated NNSA oversight program

Improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the institutional requirements analysis process


Goal: Business ExcellenceDeliver cost-effective business systems that meet LANL’s business needs.


Rationale and Vision of Success: We implement modern tools to meet the needs of employees, implement efficient processes to provide integration and perform our work, plus demonstrate compliance and manage our costs while meeting mission goals safely and securely.


Deliver modern and integrated business systems/ processes /tools as a competitive advantage to mission accomplishment

Implement an enhanced and improved cost model

Stabilize and enhance recently deployed electronic procurement system

Implement tools, processes, and procedures that continue to build on procurement system efficiency and compliance, and are responsive to internal customer needs

Maintain recognition as a Supply-Chain Management leader within the NNSA complex

Optimize records storage capacity and accommodate the increasing volume and changing storage requirements for multiple record formats

Continue to champion and support business system improvement initiatives that will improve efficiency and compliance and allow for retirement of legacy systems



Strengthen communication and engagement with employees, customers, community, and stakeholders to better position LANL as the premier 21st century national security science laboratory

Shape the direction of the internal and external websites and social media to be responsive to user needs

Shape local and national media coverage to highlight science, technology, and engineering accomplishments, environmental stewardship, and the benefits enjoyed by Northern New Mexico that result from the Laboratory’s operations and community initiatives Anticipate emerging controversial issues to shape our message, ensuring that employees don’t learn of the issue from news media and that media coverage includes the Laboratory’s point of viewBuild and maintain trusting relationships with Congressional, tribal, state, and local government stakeholders

Enhance LANL’s reputation as a good corporate citizen through effective execution of our Community Commitment Plan

Leverage internal, external, and LANS resources to implement the Laboratory’s economic development program

Provide Labwide coordination of workforce development and regional education initiatives

Manage a comprehensive community giving program that considers regional needs and enables employee involvement and recognition

Goal: Effective Communication and Community ProgramsDemonstrate our value as a national laboratory, as an employer, and as a good corporate citizen by communicating effectively with our employees, customers, community, and stakeholders while successfully executing our community commitments.

Goal Champion: Rich Marquez

Rationale and Vision of Success: Maintaining and enhancing the support of our employees, customers, community, and stakeholders is critical to achieving our vision of Los Alamos as the premier national security science laboratory. We garner this support by engaging our internal and external audiences and meeting our community commitments.

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Goal: Successful WorkforceCultivate a work environment where employees are empowered to achieve success.


Rationale and Vision of Success: Our workforce is the most important element of success. We develop employees to better meet the Laboratory’s mission, implement efficient processes to better meet the needs of the Laboratory, and enhance the workplace environment.


Deliver human capital systems that support and sustain recruiting, hiring, training, and retaining the best workforce in the NNSA complex

Implement a phased approach to the introduction of incentive compensation to reward desired achievements, and a competitive employee Total Rewards package and approach to compensation and benefits• Secure approval for and deploy (as appropriate) a variable compensation incentive program

Provide workforce development programs to ensure that employees have the knowledge and skills required to successfully execute the Laboratory’s initiatives

Conduct targeted recruitment campaigns to maintain critical skills and capabilities at the Laboratory

Implement and maintain a Leadership Effectiveness System to prepare current and future leaders to motivate, support, and retain an engaged workforce • Design & execute a Leadership Talent Rev. Program for current executives and high potentials for

three leadership pools (managerial, technical, and professional)

Implement the revised Performance Management Process

Develop healthcare plan design changes

Transition HR Systems to Oracle R-12 upgrade


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