The Subsurface Contaminant Focus Area (SCFA) Plans Strategic Objectives Through Roadmaps
The Subsurface Contaminant Focus Area (SCFA) has historically worked with individual Department of Energy (DOE) sites to identify needs and develop technologies to solve those with the most immediate and high payoff. This approach has led to successful deployments and strong technical assistance. The current DOE site technical needs collection method yielded over 300 needs in fiscal year (FY) 2001 and requires a means to help focus development. With a desire to improve program support, SCFA has defined specific strategic objectives and wishes to perform specific development to accomplish these objectives. The SCFA has developed this improved approach for technical and strategic management by identifying and describing the site needs using a smaller number of technical targets, which individually work to solve many of the site needs. The targets have elements of near-term and long-term thrusts that can be used to balance the investments for science and applied R&D. SCFA is also developing ''mini roadmaps'' for each technical target to outline specific performance requirements, where improvements are needed, when the improvements are needed, and the significance to the DOE programs. The technical targets were evaluated for complexity and potential benefits to prioritize the order that they would be roadmapped. Four technical targets were identified as the first candidates for roadmapping and will be completed in the January-March 2002 time. The technical community within SCFA will develop the potential targeted improvements and the end-users will help describe the potential impact of these improvements to their programs. The end product from these ''mini roadmaps'' will include the target's technical objectives with a definition of the performance objectives and potential impacts. This paper will summarize the progress to date in roadmapping the SCFA technical targets selected to be completed first. The first four roadmaps will be used to test how the mini-roadmapping process can strengthen the strategic planning and portfolio management within the SCFA. The paper will focus on the identification and discussion of the mini-roadmapping process adaptations required to roadmap program objectives within a focus area where broad and crosscutting development is needed and customers are unique and spread out. The timely lessons learned and insights will be valuable to other programs desiring to roadmap large amounts of workscope but unsure how to successfully complete it.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Science and Technology (OST) (EM-50) (US)
- OSTI ID:
- 835276
- Resource Relation:
- Conference: Waste Management 2002 Symposium, Tucson, AZ (US), 02/24/2002--02/28/2002; Other Information: PBD: 28 Feb 2002
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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