Leadership in National Security

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Advanced Simulation ComputingAddress to the
2008 Principal Investigator MeetingDimitri
Kusnezov
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A Year of Significant Accomplishment

• Road Runner
• Sequoia
• TLCC (?)
• PSAAP re-competition
• Blue Gene/L an architectural grand finale
• Computing as a core competency beyond weapons
  certification
• Software Strategy
• TBI NBI Boost getting high level visibility
• Science Technology and Engineering Roadmap
• JASON Studies
• Boost getting started
• LEP being discussed
• National Academy Studies are nearing completion
• QMU
• Materials
• GAO Audit on Uncosted Balances

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New Predictive Science Academic Alliance Program
(PSAAP)

• Focus on a multi-scale, multi-disciplinary,
  unclassified application of NNSA interest
• Demonstrate validated simulation capability for
  prediction
• Produce new methodologies on
• Verification
• Validation
• Uncertainty quantification
• Tight integration of experiment
• and simulation
• Projected Selection Announcement March 1, 2008

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Things on our minds today

• Hill Staff changes
• Transition soon
• New NPR
• DP Leadership changes
• UQ
• SNL SCIF
• Out year pressures
• RRW ?
• Fewer codes
• Mission
• DSB

The Congressional Modeling and Simulation Caucus
(Randy Forbes, R-Va, Chair).
The ASC booth, Predict with Confidence,
introduced interested constituents, congressional
staffers and members of Congress to some of
NNSAs most high-tech simulation tools used in
Stockpile Stewardship.
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Focus Area 4

• A vision for NNSA as the technology arm for
  agencies with national security responsibilities.
  
• Achieved through joint sponsorship agreements
  with DOE landlord oversight.
• Communicate vision internally and externally,
  work with Congress and other agencies to develop
  sponsorships and support.
• Provide enhanced security to the US and its
  allies and preserve the Defense Program labs as
  national assets.

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Focus Area 4 Status Update NNSA and its Labs
Mission and Vision

• Phase 1 White Paper
• Two NNSA/Director Meetings held in DC (June and
  September)
• Working group developed
• Joint White Paper written
• Signed by four Directors, NNSA Administrator and
  Under Secretary for Science reflecting consensus
  on enhanced mission.
• Language for broader mission/vision incorporated
  in FY09 Budget Request
• Phase 2 Implementation
• Third Director meeting held in DC in January
• Near term opportunities for partnering with other
  agencies being considered
• Entering into discussions with labs and sites on
  funding mechanisms, Reducing costs,
• Pilot projects being identified for FY08
  development
• FY10 NNSA guidance being drafted to reflect
  mission/vision white paper

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FY08 Reports to Congress
FY08 Omnibus Appropriations Conference
Report The NNSA is directed to develop a
long-term scientific capability roadmap for the
national laboratories to be submitted to the
Committees on Appropriations ENERGY AND WATER
APPROPRIATIONS BILL, 2008 REPORT 110127
(p.151) The Committee directs the Department to
provide a comprehensive computing proposal that
involves the input from the weapons laboratories
that includes a long term strategy to maintain
the necessary simulation capabilities within the
complex and to drive innovation and competition
for technology and performance. The Committee
is also frustrated with the lack of scientific
development vision for the labs. The NNSA has
focused on its transformational plan, based on
the RRW systems, but appears to have given little
thought to the scientific path forward. The
Committee directs the Department, drawing on the
resources within NNSA and the Office of Science,
to provide to the Committee a research and
development plan that addresses unresolved
physics and materials questions that will support
national security mission as well as contributed
to improving our energy independence, non-
proliferation mission and to support biomedical
applications. This plan should explore technology
options that can be deployed and provide an added
capability to our RD program to update the
scientific capabilities at each of the
laboratories.
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Looking Ahead

• Leadership in national security computational
  science remains a priority
• Helping shape our future this year
• Injecting STE more strongly into certification
  and the production complex
• Predictivity

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ASC FY2009

• Priorities
• Increasing our current capability as the
  computational surrogate for nuclear testing
  weapons behavior moving towards predictivity
• Application of mature ASC tools to nuclear
  security issues related to certification, as well
  as nonproliferation, attribution/forensics, and
  emergency response
• Engaging other government agencies to apply the
  ASC capabilities and resources codes, workforce
  and facilities beyond the historic nuclear
  weapons core mission and include the full
  spectrum of national security interests
• Using NNSA and ASC program guidance to ensure
  future balance and sustainability for the ASC
  program
• Projected Achievements
• Implement physics-based representation of energy
  balance in the weapons codes
• Validate a suite of physics-based models and
  high-fidelity databases supporting the full
  operating capability of the DTRA National
  Technical Nuclear Forensics program
• Perform simulations on Roadrunner that will
  inform boost physics models in weapons
  simulations
• Quantify numerical uncertainties using the
  Sequoia initial delivery system in preparation
  for high fidelity UQ studies on the final system
• Continued support of the Thermonuclear Burn
  Initiative (TBI) the 2007 through 2012 moon
  shot to understand a leading source of
  uncertainty