§2523c Major Warhead Refurbishment Program

Summary

Starting in fiscal year 2015 and every year after, the Secretary of Energy must send the congressional defense committees a report for each major warhead refurbishment program that reaches Phase 6.3. Each report must say what other options were looked at before Phase 6.3, compare costs and benefits and the trade-offs among cost, schedule, and performance, identify costs and risks for key technologies (maturity, integration, manufacturing, and demonstration needs), identify costs and risks for required capital assets and infrastructure, compare risks/costs/schedules for any military safety, security, or maintainability requirement (including consolidation or integration) against at least one other feasible option the Nuclear Weapons Council finds appropriate, and include a life‑cycle cost estimate for the chosen option with its cost, scope, and schedule assumptions.