Year
2004
Abstract
Development efforts of the Local Area Nuclear Material Accountability Software (LANMAS) application have focused on the need to replace outdated legacy nuclear material accounting (NMA) applications and improve and standardize NMA throughout the Department of Energy (DOE) complex. The DOE Office of Materials Inventory and Technology Development (SO- 20.3) fund the management, operation, and maintenance of LANMAS, a core nuclear material accounting software product. The Westinghouse Savannah River Company (WSRC) is the lead contractor. Over the past year, NMA initiatives within DOE and the increased flexibility built into LANMAS, have resulted in an increased user base and an enhanced capability to quickly deploy new components to deal with emergent data collection, data reporting, and data analysis needs of the DOE user sites. In addition to assisting the DOE sites with routine nuclear material accounting operations and responding to national nuclear security interests, LANMAS is being used to support the Department’s Continuity of Operations and Continuity of Government operations. The nuclear materials control and accountability (MC&A) software conforms to the application and technology layers identified by DOEs Enterprise Architecture via the use of commercial off-the-shelf computer systems and Microsoft computer operating systems. LANMAS capabilities and available commercial tool sets are being utilized to develop and maintain an independent store of timely and detailed nuclear material inventory information. This paper discusses enhanced capabilities in LANMAS and areas of opportunity within DOE that SO-20.3 and the LANMAS Team are engaged in to ensure LANMAS successfully meets the Department’s growing needs. In the future, successful operations of LANMAS will continue to include expanded software functionality to support the enhancement and standardization of nuclear material accounting throughout the DOE.