Nuclear Test Personnel Review (NTPR) Program Support

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DTRA has a requirement as follows:

DTRA’s Nuclear Test Personnel Review (NTPR) Program serves 500,000 atomic veterans and Department of Defense (DoD) civilian employees (and/or their dependents) who participated in U.S. atmospheric nuclear testing (1945-1962), with the occupation forces of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan, or were prisoners of war in Japan at the conclusion of World War II. The program similarly supports an analogous 50,000 DoD personnel associated with U.S. underground nuclear weapon testing (1951-1992), and 6,000 DoD personnel associated with the radiological clean-up of the Pacific Proving Ground. It interacts directly with the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Department of Justice (DOJ), and the Department of Labor (DOL) to provide DoD’s input for veteran radiogenic disease medical assistance and financial compensation.  It awards Atomic Veterans Service Certificates for the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). Additional information is available at:

https://www.dtra.mil/DTRA-Mission/Reference-Documents/NTPR-Info/

NTPR also serves as DoD's subject matter expert for personnel radiation dose assessment, and provides this support at the request of the OSD, Combatant Commanders, and the military services. Recent examples include dose assessment requests for service member's exposure to x-rays emanating from Long Range Navigation (LORAN) high voltage vacuum tube transmitter units, service member's exposure to radiological releases from the McMurdo Station, Antarctica nuclear power plant, and DoD-affiliated individuals' exposure to radiological releases from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power station.

The scope of this work requires the contractor to perform veteran participation verification, dose assessment, information management, veteran assistance/outreach, and program management tasks. This effort includes six (6) major task areas:

1. Perform veteran participation verification for radiogenic disease compensation claims/medical assistance and Atomic Veterans Service Certificates;

2. Develop and perform credible radiation dose assessments using state-of-the-art standard methods and procedures, with an associated independent quality assurance program;

3. Update and maintain DTRA’s atomic veteran computer network and software applications (e.g. NuTRIS-Web; Ref: DTRA-TR-19-039, “Design Aspects of DTRA’s NuTRIS-Web Software Application”: DTIC Accession No. AD1093055);

4. Provide records research and information management;

5. Perform process improvement and scientific studies; and

6. Provide program management of government furnished equipment, security of Personally Identifiable Information records, and a staff holding national security clearances.