AN INTEGRATED INVENTORY INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Since the end of the Cold War, the focus of the Department of Energy (DOE) Defense Programs (DP) has shifted from developing and producing new weapons to the maintenance and stewardship of a much smaller stockpile. This change of focus--along with the downsizing of the nuclear weapons complex, reduced budgets and the initiation of stockpile rebuild activities--has created a challenging set of circumstances under which nuclear materials and special non-nuclear materials must be managed. To address the challenges associated with managing these materials and reliably forecasting future national security needs, Sandia National Laboratories is working with DOE/DP and other DOE laboratories and plants to define an Integrated Inventory Information Management System (IIIMS). This paper will describe the general architecture and the capabilities of the IIIMS that have been identified to date and discuss the proposed approach to system development.