Case Study: Pantex Plant (U.S. nuclear weapons facility) achieves secure cross‑facility data sharing and $600K savings with Denodo Technologies data virtualization

Pantex Uses Data Virtualization to Share Sensitive Information across Facilities, to Maintain the Nuclear Weapons Stockpile

Pantex Plant, the U.S. Department of Energy’s primary nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly facility, supports the National Nuclear Security Administration’s PRIDE program to securely share weapon lifecycle data across multiple cleared sites. Faced with disparate legacy systems, delayed data delivery, weak governance and high security risk when exchanging sensitive information between facilities, Pantex needed a way to provide timely, auditable, and secure access to engineering and lifecycle data.

Pantex migrated documents to a PLM system and deployed Denodo data virtualization to create virtual data marts, publish secure web services, and enable a self-service information portal, avoiding disruptive source-system changes. The approach sped data delivery, improved lineage and security, reduced training, licensing and maintenance costs, and saved $600,000 in three months—yielding a 15% ROI in that period and securing continued NNSA funding.

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Stefanie Elsea

Program Information Technologist