Program Objectives | National Nuclear Security Administration

Stewardship Science Academic Alliances (SSAA) Program Objectives

• Support the U.S. scientific community by funding research projects at universities that conduct fundamental science and technology research that is of relevance to Stockpile Stewardship, namely; materials under extreme conditions (condensed matter physics and materials science, hydrodynamics, and fluid dynamics); low energy nuclear science, high energy density physics, and radiochemistry. 
  
  

• Provide opportunities for intellectual challenge and collaboration by promoting scientific interactions between the academic community and scientists at the DOE/NNSA's laboratories. 

• Develop and maintain a long-term recruiting pipeline to the DOE/NNSA laboratories by increasing the visibility of the DOE/NNSA scientific activities to U.S. academic communities.