Excerpt: Action POC Target Date Status Issues/Remarks Establish NMA Team - Post Lead Position Andy Zawadzki 8/31/2004 Complete Assess workload transitioning to Albuquerque G. Pena-Chavez 5/18/2004 Complete Questionnaire responses due 5/18/04 Assess source documents needed for performing accounting G. Pena-Chavez 5/18/2004 Complete Primarily NMMSS Reports Assess file volume transitioned to Albuquerque G. Pena-Chavez 5/18/2004 Complete Identify roles/responsibilities (MEO/...

Excerpt: PWS Task Reference (as applicable) Task Assigned to Policies, references, etc. Comments 1 C-5.1.8.1.1 Prepare, consolidate, and record accounting entries in DOE's primary accounting and reporting system and DIMS, perform systems reconciliations, and submit quarterly Nuclear Materials Inventory Report. G. Pena-Chavez, NNSA SC MEO Final Proposal Generate monthly transaction and ending inventory reports from the Weapons Information System (WIS), e.g., costing sheet...

Excerpt: OTHER GENERAL ACCOUNTING TEAM TRANSITION PLAN (DOE Inter and Intra Entity Cost and Contract Transfers) PWS/Transition Planning Steps Assignee Target Date Comments Status 9 Coordinate the obligation/deobligation of the 7/31/04 uncosted IWO/MPO transfer funds All 9/30/2004 Per J. Campbell's 5/20 memo In process 10 Convert all 82 & 84 B&R activity to YN19 All 9/30/2004 AL and ORO are near completion as of 9/10/04 In process 11 Assign Order Numbers to all YN19 activ...

Excerpt: Contractor-Held Property EFASC MEO Field Liaison Integrated Contractor Non Integrated Contractor Policies, references, etc. 1 Integrated contractor property reporting will be though the STARS interface and entries will be put directly into STARS General Ledger X X Acctg Hndbk Chapter 10 2 MEO Field Office Liaison will query STARS for Integrated Contractor Property transactions to reconcile with Integrated Contractor Property Records on a quarterly basis. X X Acc...

Excerpt: The actions/tasks listed in this plan are based on the following assumptions and premises. The presence of any conditions contrary to these assumptions and premises will have a significant impact in terms of actions/tasks required to implement the Most Efficient Organization (MEO). ? Effective June 1, 2004, the Oak Ridge Financial Service Center (ORFSC) will assume responsibility for payments made by the Capital Accounting Center (CAC). ? Effective October 1, 20...

Excerpt: PWS Task No. Task ORFSC RES FO Comments A. Vendor Payments C.5.2.5 A.1 Establish and maintain vendor profile records in the accounting system X C.5.1.2 A.2 Record reservation and obligation entries necessary to issue payments X C.5.2.2.2 A.3 Receive invoice for processing X Vendors/employees must send ALL original invoices directly to the ORFSC C.5.2.2.2 A.4 Review invoice and supporting documentation to determine if it meets the criteria of a proper invoice X C...

Excerpt: Action Target Completion Date Status Organization POC A Develop process flows TBD ME-12 Thomas B Develop desk procedures TBD ME-12 Thomas 12. Develop field office POC list for financial statements TBD EFASC Harbell 13. Recording Treasury Warrants and SF-1151 Transfers 14. Determine whether Public Law, Trading Partner, and Trading Account attributes (as needed) can be entered into STARS from ADI worksheets 05/14/04 Completed (yes) ME-12 Harbell 15. Verify that Bu...

Excerpt: DISCAS DCSs PURPOSE OFFICE DISBURSEMENTS/COLLECTIONS OR FOR ALL AUT ALL MARS CARD FILE SUBMISSIONS ALL G01-G31 PAYMENTS - PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION (PCS) OR FOR ALL S01-S31 PAYMENTS - SAME DAY OR FOR ALL T03-T35 TRAVEL PAYMENTS - LOCAL TRAVEL - 3RD PARTY DRAFT CAC 001-031 PAYMENTS - 7 DAYS EARLY OR FOR ALL 045 PAYMENTS - LOC CHECKS PAID/ASAP OR FOR ALL 101-131 PAYMENTS - EXCEPT TRAVEL OR FOR ALL 201-231 TRAVEL PAYMENTS - TREASURY - MANUAL OR FOR ALL 270 OUTGOI...

Excerpt: Action Target Completion Date Status Organization POC CHRIS Complete DCPS Complete DOE Info Complete ESS Complete LDS Complete MyPay Complete 2.25 ASAP 06/30/04 Complete 2.26 Ca$hLink II 06/30/04 Complete 2.27 FedLine 06/30/04 Complete 2.28 FedInvest 06/30/04 Complete 2.29 Government Wide Accounting System (GWA) 06/30/04 Complete 2.30 GOALS II 06/30/04 Complete 2.31 Intra-Governmental Fiduciary Confirmation System (IFCS) 06/30/04 Complete 2.32 IPAC 06/30/04 Comp...

Excerpt: PWS Task Reference (as applicable) Task Comments Currently Assigned to Assigned to in FY 2005 (Proposed) Transition Plan Payroll (CAC) - LDS 986 Payroll and Budget Execution Team - TBD Accounts Receivable (CAC) Special Accounts & Reconciliation Team - TBD Treasury Payments (OR) Payments Division (OR) - TBD IPAC Payments General Accounting Team - TBD Working Capital - Kathy Schanck - (CAC) Payroll and Budget Execution Team - TBD Reimbursable Work - Dewight Perkin...

Excerpt: If a field office has receivables at Treasury for cross-servicing forward copies of the Treasury activity and/or list of the accounts at Treasury to the EFASC. This is to make sure the EFASC can easily determine which receivables are at Treasury.

Excerpt: Employee requests an application package which includes a Bank of America (BOA) application form, BOA Cardholder agreement, instructions for completing BOA application, and Employee Acknowledgement Form.

Excerpt: Kick-off Meeting to stand up the MEO accounting operations Data call for information on each existing Travel Manager (TM) database to include size, number of users, version used for document preparation WEB or GUI, and customer support process

Excerpt: Receive, review, and validate TDY travel voucher file and execute Travel Manager (TM) interface

Excerpt: Most of the Department's interaction with the public and Congress is through writing. Effective communication is an important tool that is often underused. The Executive Secretariat Style Guide is a tool to help in the preparation of effective, well-written materials.

Excerpt: Methods of devising a bomb deriving its explosive energy from the fission of U-235 or Pu-239 were purely speculative. The engineering effort was entirely in the future, and it would depend heavily on the results of physical, chemical, and metallurgical studies of the two possible core materials. These studies would have to be made on extremely small quantities of uranium and plutonium, so that the necessary knowledge would be gained by the time larger quantities should become available.

Excerpt: By the time the school had been notified nearly two weeks later, it had already become clear that the original estimated Project requirement of 30 scientists was ill-considered and that the Ranch School?s 27 houses would be far from adequate. Therefore in December, when construction contracts were let, they included, in addition to laboratory buildings, temporary living quarters for a population of about 300 people. But even before the Ranch School students had ...

Excerpt: The nucleus of an atom of uranium-235 contains 92 protons and 143 neutrons. When this nucleus absorbs an additional neutron, it becomes unstable and usually divides approximately in half. The two fragments become nuclei of two lighter elements, having a total mass somewhat less than the mass of the original uranium nucleus plus the additional neutron. Most of the mass difference between the original material and the products is converted into kinetic energy?rapi...

Excerpt: With doubt and uncertainty hanging over the project throughout 1944 it is not surprising that one of the first and most heavily emphasized efforts in the test preparations was planning for the recovery of active material in case the nuclear explosion failed to take place. In 1944 there was barely enough plutonium available to conduct the essential experiments and the outlook for increased production was dim. It seemed absolutely essential that the active materia...

Excerpt: Countdown; The air hung heavy over the Hill that summer. Rains failed to come and precipitation was half the normal amount. Temperatures rose to average four degrees above normal. Water became scarce and fires threatened, adding to the irritations and frustrations. Dorothy McKibbin, who ran the Santa Fe liaison office for the Los Alamos project, could discern the tightening of tensions on the Hill, but because of rigid security, she had only her intuition to tel...