U.S. Department of Energy - Oak Ridge Office
Directives Management Group
(SCMS Operations Center)

 

DIRECTIVES MANAGEMENT GROUP/
SCMS OPERATIONS CENTER
WEEKLY ACTIVITY REPORT
October 27, 2009

Directives Management Group: 

Updating of the ORO Management Systems Description-Quality Assurance Plan (MSD-QAP): The MSD-QAP has been sent out for review one last time to address any omissions or conflicts that my exist due to the elimination of the ORO Directives Systems in December 2008.  As of October 27th, only one set of comments has been received.  In the next few days the ISO 9000 Program Manager will send out the QAP portion of this document for review and comment.  The target date for completion of the entire MSD-QAP is December 14, 2009.
ORO Contact: Wayne Albaugh, 576-0974

DOE Justification Memo (JM)The JM on the Proposal to revise DOE O 580.19, Conduct of Operations for DOE Facilities, and renumber it to DOE O 422.X, went out for complete review on October 16, 2009, with concurrence from the ES&H Management System Owner (MSO), EM and NE. Due to a very broak-reaching scope, determination of the correct MSO was an issue, but was finally accepted by a MSO.
ORO Contact:  Jenni Hamilton, 576-0681 

Draft DOE Directives:  After four rejections, the draft Order, DOE O 426.Y, Personnel Selection, Training, Qualification, and Certification Requirements for DOE Nuclear Facilities, due to Headquarters on November 12, has finally been accepted by the ES&H MSO. This is another requirement that has a very broad-reaching scope. Request for review went out again on October 26, 2009. New drafts received this week and sent out for review DOE O 458.1, Radiation of the Public and the Environment; DOE M 231.1-1A, Change 3, Environment, Safety and Health Reporting Manual; and DOE M 231.1-2, Change 1, Occurrence Reporting and Processing of Operations Information, are all due to Headquarters SC, EM, and NE on December 12, 2009. Other drafts out for review are DOE O 430.1C, Real Property Asset Management, sue to Headquarters on November 9, 2009; DOE O 461.1B, Packaging for Offsite Shipment of Materials of National Security Interest; and DOE O 461.2, Onsite Packaging and Transfer of Materials of National Security Interest, due to Headquarters on November 9, 2009.
ORO Contact:  Jenni Hamilton, 576-0681
 

DOE Technical Standards The Annual Office of Management and Budget review of Technical Standard activity was completed and forwarded to Headquarters on October 26, 2009.  The three ORO participating technical standards committee members are currently involved in their Technical Standards committees dealing with Fire Protection, Nuclear Criticality, and Hydrogen Fluoride.
ORO Contact:  Jenni Hamilton, 576-0681 

DOE Control Form Out for Signature:  DOE O 350.1, Change 2, Contractor Human Resource Management Programs, is due on November 4, 2009.
ORO Contact: Susan Simpson, 576-3608

Requirements Change Notices (RCN):   Third Quarter RCNs sent to the Contracting Officer (CO), to be issued via a contract modification, are Bechtel Jacobs (BJC), EnergX, Isotek, Protection Strategies Incorporated (PSI), and Wackenhut Services Incorporated (WSI). 

Second Quarter RCNs were sent to the CO for signature, to issue via a contract modification, for EnergX, Isotek, PSI, and WSI have not been executed.  At this time, the Second Quarter RCNs are four months behind. 

First Quarter RCNs were sent to the CO for signature, to issue a contract modification, the RCNs for EnergX, and WSI have not been executed.  At this time, the First Quarter RCNs are seven months behind and the validity of this process is very much in question.
ORO Contact:  Wayne Albaugh, 576-0974. 

Impact Assessments (IAs):  Four IA response letters were sent to the DPI via e-mail.
ORO Contact:  Wayne Albaugh, 576-0974. 

Implementation Plans (IPs).  Three IPs are under COR review for approval, rejection, or closure.  Three IPs are pending submission by the contractor.
ORO Contact:  Wayne Albaugh, 576-0974.

 

Office of SCience Management System (SCMS) Operations:

SCience Management System (SCMS) Delegations DataBase: The design for the new SCMS Delegations of Authority page was reviewed by the SCMS Team and ISC Points of Contact on October 14, 2009. The new design was presented to Headquarters SC-3 for their acceptance. We are awaiting word on Headquarters final recommendation. A good solid foundation has been developed for this sire which will be utilized by all of Science. Once the design is approved, population will begin, with plans to have the site completed in the short term.
ORO Contact:  Jenni Hamilton, 576-0681

SCMS Management System Owner/Secondary Management System Owner/Point of Contact (MSO/SMSO/POC) Conference Calls:  On October 28, 2009, the SCMS Team will host the second MSO/SMSO/Points of Contact (POC) conference meetings for all of the Office of Science.  These calls will discuss MSO Preparation of Comment Packages for submission to SC-3, Requirements Decisions Records (RDRs) issues, demos of new products (Annual Review and SME tools), increased communication with and between the MSOs, and requirements cleanup.
ORO Contact:  Jenni Hamilton, 576-0681

Science Directives Points of Contact (DPC) Conference Call: The SCMS Operations Center hosted the Directives Points of Contact conference call on October 14, 2009. Items discussed with the resolution of issues, changes to RevCom, Subject Matter Expert notifications, and annual updates with quarterly meetings. New items discussed were the inclusion of all contractors' directives points of contact, resolving issues locally, Requirements Management SME tool, and the problem with SMEs notifying to many people with their responses. DMG is working with Doxcelerate and Headquarters to resolve that particular concern which plagued us during RevCom training last spring.
ORO Contact: Jenni Hamilton, 576-0681

Requirements Decision Records (RDRs): 
Number of RDRs requiring an action to complete   66
Number of RDRs completed               630
Total number of active requirements   696
Percentage of RDR actions complete  90
%
Number of RDRs initiated this week  3
ORO Contact:  Diane Johnson, 576-4001 

SCMS Computer/Programming Activities:
Commented out display of the Employee ID during SCMS programs.
Made several minor modifications to the Annual Review process and developed new programs to allow MSOs to sending emails to product Points of Contact requesting their participation in the review.
Developed a training PowerPoint presentation for the Annual Review process.
Supporting audio files are currently being recorded.

ORO Contact:  John London, 241-3259 

SCMS Publishing: 
In review:
  1 - Administering Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Programs
Pending Publications:  0
Published:
 
1 -  (1) Subject Area: Management and Operating (M&O) Contract Management and Administration

ORO Contact:  Ryan Shelton, 241-9364 

SCMS Help Desk tickets:
Received:  3
Number Active:  1
ORO Contact:  Ryan Shelton, 241-9364 

SCMS Home Page “Metrics”
Total Cumulative Hits month of September:  3102
Cumulative unique IPs accessing SCMS server for the month of October: 368

Number of “Questions/Comments” received this week:  0
ORO Contact:  Ryan Shelton, 241-9364

SCMS Editing:
Products with SCMS Editorial – 1
(BQW)
Products Pending Response from Product POC or MSO – 10
New
Products Received in the Past Week 1 (BQW)
Additional Revisions Received in Past Week (0) 

NOTE:  These counts do not include products in review and comment nor those pending publication.
ORO Contact:  Melissa Aslinger, 574-0463

 

 

Wayne H. Albaugh, Team Leader
Directives Management Group
SCMS Requirements Manager
SCMS Operations Center

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