Technology planning is important for many reasons. Globally, companies are facing many competitive problems. Technology roadmapping, a form of technology planning can help deal with this increasindy competitive environment. While it has been used by some companies and industries, the focus has always been on the technology roadmap as a product, not on the process. This report focuses on formalizing the process so that it can be more broadly and easily used. As a DOE national security laboratory with R&D as a major product, Sandia must do effective technology planning to identify and develop the technologies required to meet its national security mission. Once identified, technology enhancements or new technologies may be developed internally or collaboratively with external partners. For either approach, techno103 roadmapping as described in this report, is an effective tool for technology planning and coordination, which fits within a broader set of planning activities. This report, the second in a series on technology roadmapping, develops and documents this technology roadmapping process, which can be used by Sandia, other national labs, universities, and industry. The main benefit of

Ex tended Abstract'e I ' Technology roadmapping is a form of technology planning that can help organizations deal with their increasingly competitive environment. As a DOE national security laboratory with R&D as a major product, Sandia must -also do effective technology planning to identify and develop the technologies required to meet its R&D mission. Once an organization identifies required technology enhancements or new technologies, they may be developed internally or collaboxatively w i t h external partners. For either approach, technology roadmapping, as described in this paper, is an effective tool for technology planning and.coordination, which fits within a broader set of planning activities. The potential benefits of technology roadmapping include idenwing cri@cal technologies and gaps, coordination. of research activities within companies or industries, and improved technology marketing information. Technology roadmapping is particularly useful when technology investment decisions are not straight forward and for coordinating the development of multiple technologies, especially across multiple projects.Some technology roadmaps have been produced, but the focus has always been on the roadmap as an end result, not on the process. Therefore, there is very little literature on the process and the main learning and development of the process. occurred because sometimes some of. the same people were involved in several technology .roadmaps. The real contribution of this paper is that it formalizes and documents this technology roadmapping process. ' It describes the technology roadmapping process and shows how it fits within a corporation's overall strategic and technology planning process.The technology roadmapping process consists of three phases -preliminary activity, development of the technology roadmap, and follow-up activity. Preliminary activity includes: (1) Satisfy essential conditions. (2) Provide leadership/sponsor-ship. (3) Define the scope and boundaries for the technology roadmap. Development of the technology roadmap includes: (1) Identify the "product" that will be the focus of the roadmap. (2

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The second report, Information Model for On-Site Inspection System (SAND97-0049), describes the information model that was jointly developed as part of two LDRDs: (1) Information Integration for Data Fusion, and (2) Interactive On-Site Inspection System: An Information System to Support Arms Control Inspections. Section 1 describes the purpose and scope of the two LDRD projects and reviews the prototype development approach, including the use of a GIS. Section 2 describes the information modeling methodology. Section 3 provides a conceptual data dictionary for the OSIS (On-Site Inspection System) model, which can be used in conjunction with the detailed information model provided in the Appendix. Section 4 discussions the lessons learned from the modeling and the prototype. Section 5 identifies the next steps-two alternate paths for future development. The long-term purpose of the On-Site Inspection LDRD was to show the benefits of an information system to support a wide range of on-site inspection activities for both offensive and defensive inspections. The database structure and the information system would support inspection activities under nuclear, chemical, biological, and conventional arms control treaties. This would allow a common database to be shared for all types of inspections, providing much greater cross-treaty synergy. The details of the prototype are described in another Sandia report (SAND93-2300), Interactive On

Sandia National Laboratories was tasked with developing the Defense Nuclear Material Stewardship Integrated Inventory Information Management System (IIIMS) with the sponsorship of NA-125.3 and the concurrence of DOE/NNSA field and area offices. The purpose of IIIMS was to modernize nuclear materials management information systems at the enterprise level. Projects over the course of several years attempted to spearhead this modernization. The scope of IIIMS was broken into broad enterpriseoriented materials management and materials forecasting. The IIIMS prototype was developed to allow multiple participating user groups to explore nuclear material requirements and needs in detail. The purpose of material forecasting was to determine nuclear material availability over a 10 to 15 year period in light of the dynamic nature of nuclear materials management. Formal DOE Directives (requirements) were needed to direct IIIMS efforts but were never issued and the project has been halted. When restarted, duplicating or re-engineering the activities from 1999 to 2003 is unnecessary, and in fact future initiatives can build on previous work. IIIMS requirements should be structured to provide high confidence that discrepancies are detected, and classified information is not divulged. Enterprise-wide materials management systems maintained by the military can be used as overall models to base IIIMS implementation concepts upon. Option Explicit Public CurrentWB As Workbook 'Name of the initial workbook Public FirstTimeThrough As Boolean Public InitialOpening As Boolean Public Chart_Data(15) As Range Public Chart_Type(15) As Variant Public Chart_Title(15) As String * 30

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