EXPANDING THE CAPABILITIES OF THE LOCAL AREA NETWORK MATERIAL ACCOUNTING SYSTEM (LANMAS) TO MEET THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY’S GROWING NEEDS

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Plutonium, Uranium and Special Materials Inventory (SO-62) continues to support the improvement and standardization of nuclear material accounting through the funding and program management of the Local Area Network Material Accounting System (LANMAS). The LANMAS development effort began in the early 1990's and by the end of Fiscal Year 2002, LANMAS will be the nuclear material accounting system of record at twelve facilities. LANMAS is a network-based nuclear materials accounting software package developed to replace outdated and legacy accounting systems throughout the DOE complex. Over the past year, several of the LANMAS sites requested that LANMAS capabilities be expanded to assist with ongoing site closure activities, including the processing, disposition and long term storage of nuclear material in waste. More recently, the Department and SO-62 are exploring how LANMAS capabilities and available commercial tool sets can be utilized to develop and maintain an independent warehouse of timely and detailed nuclear material inventory information. This paper discusses the current and expanding LANMAS capabilities. These activities aid to ensure that LANMAS will continued to remain a robust and viable software product with enhanced capabilities to support the Department’s various program needs.