Abstract: . . .  work was performed under the auspices of the U. S. Department of Energy by the University of California Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory under contract No. W-7405-Eng-48. 7 of 8 Page 10 REFERENCES 1. Report of the Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and International Security Advisory Committee for the 1998-1999 Review Period, October 26, 1999. 2, LLNL Environmental, Safety and Health (ES&H) Manual, Volume 4, Part 3, "LLNL Quality Assurance Program," Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, UCRL-MA- 113867. 3. Quality Assurance, Department of Energy Order DOE O 414.1A, (September . . .
. . .  assessment to validate the quality management plan and evaluate its adequacy, integration, and level of implementation. The assessment can also serve to identify any significant areas that could prevent the organization from meeting its quality , management,, and performance objectives. CONCLUSIONS The challenges of developing a quality management plan are compounded in unique R&D organizations such as NAI for which few quality management system models and standards exist and trust in quality efforts is typically low. However, R&D organizations can take several steps to overcome the obstacles and ensure . . .
. . .  validate the quality management plan and evaluate its adequacy, integration, and level of implementation. The assessment can also serve to identify any significant areas that could prevent the organization from meeting its quality , management,, and performance objectives. CONCLUSIONS The challenges of developing a quality management plan are compounded in unique R&D organizations such as NAI for which few quality management system models and standards exist and trust in quality efforts is typically low. However, R&D organizations can take several steps to overcome the obstacles and ensure success . . .
. . .  Programs for Basic and Applied Research, Department of Energy Standard, DOE-ER-STD-6001-92, (June 1992). . Quality Management Plan for Science and Engineering, Nonproliferation, Arms Control, and International Security Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, March 20, 2000. . Peer Review Handbook, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Science Policy Council, EPA 100-B-98-001, (January 1998). 8 of 8  . . .
. . .  response to the new and unique quality management challenges, the NAIAD office, in part, established a strategic quality initiative to develop and integrate a new quality management plan for NAI. OBSTACLES TO DESIGNING AND INTEGRATING NAI’S QUALITY MANAGEMENT PLAN The first major obstacle to designing and integrating the quality management plan was the lack of trust in NAI’s " quality " efforts. NAI’s past quality management plans like other LLNL directorate-level quality plans were written to meet the requirements of the LLNL Quality Assurance Program (Ref. 2). The LLNL Quality Assurance Program is an . . .
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