Highlights for January 20 - 24, 2003Activities Underway Office of Safeguards and Security Evaluations (OA-10) SRS Comprehensive Inspection: Topic teams have completed document reviews, Headquarters interviews, and have begun preparing portions of the inspection report. Planning for tabletop exercises, limited scope performance tests and review of vulnerability analyses have been completed. The data collection phase is scheduled and preparations for the force-on-force performance testing continue. Preparations are underway for a presentation to be given to Headquarters and site security managers from the Office of Science at Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory next week concerning the independent oversight program and trends from recent inspections. LANL Comprehensive Inspection: Factual accuracy comments have been incorporated and the technical edit has been completed. The report has been forwarded to management for approval. Distribution of the final report is planned for next week. CMPC Special Reviews: The schedule of future special reviews has been forwarded to management. Action has begun to update the special review plan and procedure. Comments on the draft LANL special CMPC review report are due January 28. CAT Training: Follow-up from the recently completed training will take place next week in the form of a round table discussion and preparation of an after action report. Office of Cyber Security Evaluations (OA-20) Cyber Security Evaluation of the Savannah River Site: OA-20 personnel conducted a scoping visit at SRS. Coordination with site cyber security personnel is ongoing to schedule specific inspection activities. Perimeter Scanning Project: The special study continues to map and identify vulnerabilities in DOE computer networks exposed to potential attack from the Internet. Vulnerability testing has been completed for 23 DOE sites with testing ongoing at six additional sites. Discussions are in progress with a number of additional sites to coordinate testing activities. Summary reports will be prepared for each site to summarize scanning results for site and program line management. A draft site report for DOE Headquarters has been prepared as a prototype. Office of Emergency Management Oversight (OA-30) OA-30 and OA-50 are continuing to plan for an inspection of Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico. OA-30 conducted a scoping visit last week for an inspection of the Office of Secure Transportation Asset (NA-14) emergency management program. The inspection data collection phase has been scheduled. OA-30 and OA-10 will be sharing perspectives and exploring opportunities for combining elements of emergency management and security within inspection performance tests. OA-30 is developing an approach for a “Summary Report of Emergency Management Program Status.” Inspection data collected from 2000-2002 is being reviewed and analyzed. The results will provide the status of key sites since the OA 1999 follow-up report and provide insight for future inspection activities. These efforts are anticipated to be completed in January 2003. OA-30 will be proposing a series of Headquarters emergency response exercises. The exercises are currently being planned. Coordination with impacted line program and support offices will occur in January. Office of Environment, Safety and Health Evaluations (OA-50) A corrective action plan for the Pantex Environment, Safety, Health and Emergency Management Inspection has been requested. A formal report on the re-accreditation survey for the Brookhaven National Laboratory occupational medical program from the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC) accreditation committee is expected by the end of January. Team planning for the SNL-NM safety and emergency management inspection was initiated on January 13, 2003. The planning activities included the conduct on interviews and technical discussions with NNSA staff and senior managers. Onsite inspection activities have been scheduled. Coordination of the upcoming safety management inspection at the Y-12 National Nuclear Security Complex continues. An OA-50 annual report is being developed to summarize trends and observations from ES&H reviews since the formation of OA-50. Activities Completed Office of Safeguards and Security Evaluations (OA-10) OA-10 presented its comments concerning the draft of the new Design Basis Threat to the Special Assistant to the Secretary. OA HSO updated the listing of high risk positions, attended the quarterly HQs HSO meeting, received training to track completion of the annual security refresher briefing, and submitted the final draft of the updated OA security procedures to management for approval. OA briefed the results of the ANL-W and LANL inspections to congressional staff from the subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the House Energy and Water Committee. Office of Cyber Security Evaluations (OA-20) Cyber Security Evaluation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory: The OA-20 personnel have reviewed preliminary LANL/NNSA comments on the draft inspection report. A comment response table has been prepared and necessary changes to the report have been proposed. Additionally, the OA-20 Director participated in briefings on the draft inspection report to staff members representing the New Mexico congressional delegation. Cyber Security Evaluation of the Albuquerque Operations Office/Office of Transportation Safeguards (OTS): The OA-20 Director conducted a briefing on the inspection results for representatives of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. Office of Environment, Safety and Health Evaluations (OA-50) Interviews with NNSA Headquarters Managers in support of the upcoming SNL-NM safety and emergency management inspection were completed. Discussions were held with NNSA managers regarding the NNSA policy letter process and several recently issued policy letters related to ES&H. A conference call was conducted with Pantex Plant management to discuss corrective actions from the Environment, Safety, Health and Emergency Management Inspection. The interim corrective action plan for the Nevada Test Site (NTS) inspection was received. Comments on the ES&H volume were provided to the site. All of the inspection findings have been entered into CATS.
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