Nuclear Agency Wins PMI Award

  ProjectsAtWork  

PMI recently honored the National Nuclear Security Administration, which was able to deploy a flexible IT platform ahead of schedule, allowing project managers to filter and analyze large amounts of real-time information.

The Project Management Institute has presented the National Nuclear Security Administration, a semi-autonomous agency within the U.S. Department of Energy, with a 2010 PMI Distinguished Project Award. The award recognizes NNSA's success on its Global Threat Reduction Initiative and its deployment of a project management information system called the NNSA G2. PMI presented the award at a recent ceremony at DoE headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Nuclear materials are used at thousands of civilian sites around the world, not just for power production but also in smaller quantities for industrial, medical and research purposes. The Global Threat Reduction Initiative program aims to reduce the risk that those materials will be misused or lost — a strategic concern in a time of terrorism.

Developed under PMI's A Guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide), the NNSA G2 integrated numerous project management tools into a single, comprehensive and flexible IT platform. It enabled NNSA's project managers, for the first time, to quickly and effectively filter and analyze large amounts of real-time, geo-spatially linked …

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