ML20056B420
| ML20056B420 | |
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| Issue date: | 08/15/1990 |
| From: | Carr K NRC COMMISSION (OCM) |
| To: | Jim Dodson AMERICAN MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS, INC. |
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| NUDOCS 9008280261 | |
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,a WASHINGTON, D. C. 20555 August 15, 1990 CHAIRMAN Mrs. Jan Dodson American Management Systems, Inc.
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Dear Mrs. Dodson:
I am pleased to nominate Ms. Joyce A. Amenta, former Director of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Office of Information Resources Management, for the Fourth Awards for-Achievement in flanaging Information Technology.
Ms. Amenta has made outstanding contributions to the development of the Commission's automated information network, which provides on-line access to data that is crucial to carrying out the agency's nuclear safety mission.
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. - Nature of Contribution The U. S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission nominates Ms. Joyce A. Amenta, former Director, Office of Information Resources llanagement and current Director, Division of Scientific and Technical Information, Department of Nuclear Energy and Safety, International Atomic Energy Agency, for the Achievement in Managing Information Technology Award based on her outstanding contributions to the development of the Commission's automated information network, which provides on-line access to data that is crucial to carrying out the agency's nuclear safety mission.
Developed under Ms. Amenta's direction, the Safety Information Network, commonly referred to as SINET, collects information related to nuclear power plants and other nuclear licensee operations into a centralized data base and provides the tools that enable the NRC regulatory staff to obtain easy and rapid access to the data, analyze it, and display it in a format that is most useful to the staff in performing its basic mission--protecting public health and safety.
. - Leadership Role Ms. Amenta directed the agency's SINET program and brought about a fundamental change in the agency's approach to the development of new computer systems.
She structured a plan that has allowed NRC to break away from the typical, costly, and protracted one-by-one development of stand-alone systems, with their independent, incompatible, and often redundant data structures, and to turn instead toward an integrated approach to information management, employing a single tsared database.
Her approach reflects the fact that information, like hunas > nd monetary resources, is a valuable agency asset that must be managed ter the maximum benefit and effect in serving organizational goals.
To facilitate the implementation of SINET, Ms. Amenta encouraged active user participation. An agency-wide committee was established in 1987 to reach consensus on priorities for SINET development, and today, as a result, SINET data on nuclear plant design, events, and performance is accessible from almos.
any terminal, stand-alone personal computer, or local area network in NRC's Headquarters and Regional offices, as well as resident inspector sites near every nuclear plant.
NRC staff for the first time were given easy-to-use, on-line, menu-driven access to current and highly reliable data in a single source, and SINET products have reduced the time required to respond to information requests, particularly for agency inspectors, who can now spend less effort on data collection and more time on planning for actual plant inspections.
Ms. Amenta's commitment to the SINET concept and her ability to obtain K3C management support and NRC staff acceptance of the concept have been ediential to the success that SINET has thus far attained.
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, - Other Comments Ms. Amenta's strategy for SlHET has positioned the agency to respond i
economically and efficiently to changing priorities.
Her strategy has not locked the agency into customized sof tware or hardware, but rather depends.
upon a modern relational database approach to " corporate" data management that has the flexibility to tailor data to specific needs. Current plans for new SINET applications focus nn a Master Inspection Planning System for use.by Headquarters and the Regions in planning, tracking, and reporting on reactor inspections, and an information system intended to summarize currently availabic information on important accident initiators and threats to core damage at nuclear power reactors.
The agency-wide SINET Committee, recommended by tis. Amenta, will annually review plans to assure that SINET continues to support overall Commission goals and objectives to protect pcblic health and safety.
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