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About This Study
The National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (FY2016 NDAA)1 called for a 4½-year joint study between the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) to track and assess actions in the nuclear security enterprise aimed at persistent problems of governance and management. In part, the study was intended to force continued attention to these matters that had been diagnosed many times over many years but had not been successfully addressed. This report is the fourth in a series of reports to be issued over 2017-2020 as part of that study.2 The overall charge for the National Academies-NAPA study is given in Box E.1.
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1 Section 3137 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2016, Pub. L. 112-92 (Nov. 25, 2016).
2 The study’s first report—National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2017, Report 1 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press—was released in March 2017. The second report—National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2018, Report 2 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press—was released in February 2018. The third report—National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and the National Academy of Public Administration, 2019, Report 3 on Tracking and Assessing Governance and Management Reform in the Nuclear Security Enterprise, Washington, D.C.: The National Academies Press—was released in February 2019.
