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2.1. Governance Plan

The organization for NIF Governance is outlined in Figure 2-1. The governance process allocates time to four major mission areas: Stockpile Stewardship Program (SSP): Inertial Confinement Fusion (ICF); SSP: High Energy Density (HED) Science; Discovery Science (DS); and National Security Applications (NSA). After the governance process awards time and produces a detailed schedule, the execution of experiments and the production of data is the responsibility of facility operations and a program’s integrated experimental team.

governance plan flowchart
Figure 2-1. The figure shows the key participants as well as the flow of requirements and information underlying the NIF governance process. The governance process collates stakeholder and sponsor priorities, current and future facility capabilities, and user input to allocate facility access each fiscal year for users in various mission areas.