The National Ignition Facility (NIF) won the Project Management Institute’s Project of the Year Award in 2010. The NIF is the first to use laser expected to use fusion ignition in a laboratory. The NIF is in a big facility, in a ten story building located in California. There is enough space for all there workers and research materials to achieve there goal. They received this award because they were recognized for there project team, for there performance, and for the execution of there project management.
This company has a goal has a purpose, which is to obtain nuclear fusion in a laboratory setting. Fusion is a renewable energy source. The NIF will be used to assure the safety and security of weapons that are nuclear. They will provide a way to carbon free and a limitless source of energy. They will make astrophysics larger, material science, and basic science. “The team at NIF had a deadline for the construction so all the equipment could be in and completed” said Dr. Edward Moses, Principal Associate Director for the NIF and Photon Science Directorate. They made sure they had everything in place so they could be organize and everybody that help fit right in.
The project had resources which was from people who was working like the scientist, the engineers, the vendors, suppliers, technicians, and support personnel. Other resources they had was the machinery. That consisted of 192 lasers which can give of 50 more times the energy than any other laser. They wanted to develop fusion which is clean energy and is unlimited energy. They have more than 3,000 pieces of amplifier glass, 8,000 large optics and 30,000 small optics that have been broken down into 6,206 replicable units.
The NIF is funded by the Department of Energy National Nuclear Security Administration, and by other parties. In the past couple of years they had talks about there fundings with the senate. They use other facilities to do test to see how this would work and they seen it progress fast so they funded them, but the scientist had some technical challenges, and it was coming close to the physical year. Later in the committee report is the following explanatory language regarding Limitation on Availability of Funds for Inertial Confinement Fusion Ignition and High Yield Campaign “This section would limit the obligation and expenditure of funds for fusion ignition research and experiments to not more than 50 percent until the Administrator for Nuclear Security certifies to the congressional defense committees that fusion ignition has been achieved at the National Ignition Facility (NIF) or the Administrator submits a report on fusion ignition” (Richard M. Jones)
The role of the team is to provide an understanding of the complex physics of nuclear weapons. Researchers can also explore basic science, such as astrophysical phenomena, materials science, and nuclear science. NIF’s other major mission is to provide scientist with the physics understanding necessary to create fusion ignition and energy gain for future energy. The organizational setting you have the Principal Associate Director, then you have the Chief Technologist, Program Director, Chief Scientist, Principal Deputy, Deputy Principal, Program Director for Photon Science and Applications, basically all your head people then you have your workers/students.
The obstacles that are still ahead are several technical issues should be responded to with NIF construction. While none is really serious to constitute a break down but attention to all of them will help the NIF's come to a success. Consistent physical understanding of NIF relevant phenomena should continue to better understand the effects of hohlraum wall motion and the physics of plasma instabilities. They need to control the optics damage thresholds and cost estimate contains funds to purchase slow growth KDP crystals if necessary, the effect on schedules must be considered if the fast-growth crystals fail to meet damage threshold requirements. The cost of the project was 2 million under the 3,502 million dollar budget and was done almost a month ahead of time.
The NIF accomplish a lot of goals and was very efficient on resources, using there sponsors effectively meeting deadlines. There goals and purpose of this company are very strong. there is a good reason people in the United states need a company like this to save energy and to create a new type of energy and protect us from nuclear weapons. They are expanding astrophysics and this company constructed the new Cowboys stadium. That is why the National Ignition Facility won the PMI Project of the Year Award.

References

The AIP Bulletin of Science Policy News (2012 June 7)
Richard M. Jones Government Relations Division

PMI Press Release (2010 October 11)
Glen R. Boyet (PMI)
Megan Maguire Kelly (PMI)

Information Technology Revised 2011 6th Edition
Kathy Schwalbe
2011 Cengage Learning.