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The Nuclear Security Enterprise (NSE) has served the United States remarkably well through the Manhattan Project, Cold War, and post-Cold War periods even when significant change occurred, including the end of nuclear explosive testing and strategic arms reductions. Today, rapid geopolitical and technological change impact the strategic environment and place new demands on the NSE to increase capability and capacity and respond more quickly. The United States can no longer rely on decades-old production facilities and science and technology infrastructure to meet deterrence needs. The NSE must re-establish eliminated capabilities; replace buildings that are failing; and meet modern safety, security, and environmental standards. The enterprise needs adaptable infrastructure for a global security landscape influenced by science and technology prowess alongside evolving deterrence strategies.
The Enterprise Blueprint outlines a 25-year plan to align the delivery of specialized infrastructure with demands across the nuclear stockpile, global security, and naval nuclear propulsion missions. This Blueprint prioritizes capabilities for mission delivery and takes a practical approach to becoming a more balanced, responsive, and resilient enterprise. Under the Blueprint, the NSE continuously invests in both the production and science infrastructure that support weapons design, certification, and assessment. Initially, the investments are weighted toward restoring production capabilities for modernizing weapons and the critical investments to sustain the current stockpile. As production and stockpile sustainment capabilities are restored, investments increase to revitalize the scientific base to achieve the necessary balance needed in a dynamic environment.
Further out in time, important investments in global security and naval nuclear propulsion require higher priority. Together, these investments will modernize NSE facilities and technologies and provide the capacity the mission needs in a timely manner.
This Blueprint incorporates the NSE’s best thinking on how to meet mission requirements; balance investments for production, stockpile sustainment, and science; and set the foundation for what the enterprise can deliver for decades to come. In a dynamic global environment, effective, efficient, and safe delivery on mission mandates is vital to American and international security.
