Doing Business With: The Nuclear Regulatory Commission

One White Flint North, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Md. 20852-2738 (301) 415-7000 Jan. 19, 1975 Richard Meserve About 2,700 The NRC is responsible for protecting the public and the environment from the effects of radiation from nuclear reactors, materials and waste facilities through regulations, security, licensing and monitoring. It sets security and safety rules and oversees emergency operations. NRC regulates 103 civilian nuclear power reactors and 37 non-power reactors. There are four regional offices, the High-Level Waste Management Office and the Technical Training Center. Following Sept. 11, the NRC is analyzing all its safeguards and physical security programs, which set standards for its licensees. The NRC uses these standards to evaluate security and safety of facilities and materials.2003 budget request: $605.6 million2002 budget: $585.5 millionXXXSPLITXXX- January 2001 Bronx, N.Y. Bethesda, Md. wife, two sons, a golden retriever Photography, framing, bicycling "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation," by Joseph Ellis Bachelor of science degree in chemical engineering, City College of New York; master of science degree in chemical engineering, City College of New York; graduate studies in operations research and computer science, New York University.Advancing the president's management agenda and strengthening our information technology and information management delivery processes are opportunities for us. We are pursuing architecture and IT security initiatives. We are involved in e-government initiatives that touch the NRC or to which we can contribute, and we are working to provide leadership in areas in which we have made significant progress, such as document and records management. We are also strengthening the alliance between the IT/IM functions and the program and support offices that depend on them. For IT/IM, as elsewhere in the agency, Sept. 11 caused a re-assessment of initiatives and services. This included reviewing policies and processes used to make documents available on our Web site and on our agencywide document access and management system (ADAMS). ADAMS provides both our internal and external stakeholders electronic access to documents. With regard to our Web site, we were planning to deploy a fully redesigned site in September. After 9-11, we had to develop an alternative approach to deploy the new Web site. [The Government Information Security Reform Act] placed additional focus on our security programs; 9-11 has increased the emphasis. The IT/IM function will also be challenged in its responsibility to support the High Level Waste adjudicatory hearings associated with Yucca Mountain. The NRC has the adjudicatory responsibility for these hearings. Partnership and commitment to our mutual success. We work to select service providers who have proven track records and understand our business, then we work to establish relationships at all levels of the organization. If an issue occurs, I want to be able to call appropriate senior management to discuss it without having to introduce myself first. And when things are going well, we tell our partners. We believe success breeds success.We will be more effective in addressing the agency's business needs.This year we have brought on a senior computer security officer and a senior architect, and we are putting in place an IT/IM senior management advisory council. We have established a technology assessment team. Together with our program and support offices, we are assessing new applications of technology to NRC business processes.Inspection, a core NRC business function, is one area receiving attention. We are completing a Web architecture, which will provide a foundation for the build-out of new Web-based services. We are making investments in leadership and program management.XXXSPLITXXX- $1.5 million August 2003 Maintenance and support of networking and telecommunications services. Verizon Communications Inc. holds the incumbent contract. Other bidders could include AT&T Corp., Sprint Corp., TRW Inc. and the Boeing Co. $2.8 million November Operations and maintenance of the commission's three data centers.Potential bidders: This is a small-business, set-aside contract. Ruland and Associates holds the current contract. Other bidders may include Washington Data Systems, Global Management Systems and Future Technologies Inc. InputFiscal 2001: $59.5 million Fiscal 2002: $64 millionFiscal 2003:$68.5 million Office of Management and BudgetFiscal 2001: $8.3 millionFiscal 2002: $7.7 millionFiscal 2003:$8.7 millionFiscal 2001:$3.1 millionFiscal 2002:$3.9 millionFiscal 2003: $4.3 millionFiscal 2001: $4.1 millionFiscal 2002: $4.3 millionFiscal 2003: $4.1 millionFiscal 2001: $4.8 millionFiscal 2002: $4.9 millionFiscal 2003: $5 million Office of Management and Budget