Weekly
Highlights for November 4 - 8, 2002
Office
of Safeguards and Security Evaluations (OA-10)
CH/ANL-W Comprehensive Inspection: The closeout briefing was presented to the Chicago Operations Office on November 4, 2002. Comments on the draft report and the preliminary corrective action plan are due to OA on November 20, 2002.
LANL Inspection: Work continues on the development of the LANL
Inspection Plan. An on-site
coordination visit was conducted this week to plan the force-on-force
performance test. The site visits for
planning, data collection, and performance testing have been scheduled.
Composite Adversary Team:
Solicitation continues for new and replacement Composite Adversary Team
(CAT) members. Planning is underway for
the upcoming CAT training scheduled for January 13-17, 2003 at Camp Pendleton,
California.
CMPC Special Reviews: The
ANL-W special review report has been drafted and is ready for review by the
management review board. The next
special review begins next week at Y-12.
OA-10 staff met with SO-14 to coordinate the installation of
planned enhancements to the OA classified document accountability system. The enhancements are scheduled to be in
place the week of November 18.
Office of Cyber Security Evaluations
(OA-20)
Support to the
Office of Energy Assurance: OA-20 is providing support to DOE’s Office
of Energy Assurance (OEA) by conducting an assessment of cyber security
vulnerabilities associated with critical infrastructure assets. This effort is intended to support the
transfer cyber security assessment processes to OEA in support the Department’s
efforts to protect critical energy infrastructure assets throughout the United
States. Testing and onsite assessment
activities have been completed. The
draft report is being prepared.
Cyber Security
Evaluation of the Los Alamos National Laboratory: OA-20
personnel have begun planning activities associated with an upcoming inspection
of cyber security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory. The OA-20 Office Director is onsite this
week for a scoping visit. Onsite
inspection activities will begin the week of November 18th.
Cyber
Security Evaluation of the Chicago Operations Office: Testing and inspection activities have been completed for the
evaluation of cyber security at the Chicago Operations Office. A final draft report was transmitted to the
Chicago Operations Office for review.
Perimeter
Scanning Project: OA-20 personnel have initiated
a special study (Perimeter Scanning Project) to map and identify
vulnerabilities in DOE computer networks exposed to potential attack from the
Internet. The Project Plan has been
approved and was distributed to headquarters and field organizations. Outreach activities to communicate project
objectives and coordinate vulnerability testing agreements have been
initiated. Several vulnerability
testing agreements with DOE organizations have been signed and scanning
activities have commenced.
Unannounced
Testing/Red Teaming: OA-20 personnel have continued
to refine a concept paper on establishing an unannounced cyber security
performance testing capability within the Office.
Office of Emergency Management Oversight
(OA-30)
The final report
of the Inspection of Environment, Safety, and Health Management and
Emergency Management at the Nevada Test Site, October 2002 is now being
prepared for distribution. The date for
the interim corrective action plan has been extended 2 weeks and will be
submitted by November 29.
The
combined OA-30 and OA-50 Pantex Inspection data collection phase was conducted
from October 28 to November 8. Onsite
validation and closeout is scheduled for the week of November 18.
OA-30 and OA-50 are in the initial stages of planning
for an inspection
of Sandia National Laboratories, New Mexico.
The scoping visit was completed the week of October 15-17 and the final
plan is being developed.
OA-30
has notified the Office of Transportation Safeguards of an emergency management
program inspection to be conducted in 2003.
Planning has begun and a scoping visit has been scheduled.
Office of Environment, Safety and Health
Evaluations (OA-50)
OA-50 has drafted a document for OA-1 consideration that summarizes a series of observations to support the FY 2002 Department of Energy Annual Performance Plan for review. The observations from OA provided information from selected inspections at SC, EM, and NNSA sites as well as general information from all FY ’02 reviews. The office is also looking at the FY 2003 plan for inclusion with the FY 2003 inspection plans.
A final approved corrective action plan for the safety and emergency management inspection at LLNL was received on November 1, 2002.
A corrective action plan for the Nevada Test Site (NTS) inspection has been requested. The site had no comments on the report.
Onsite
inspection activities for the Pantex safety and emergency management inspection
were initiated on October 28, 2002.
Coordination of the upcoming safety and emergency management inspection at the Sandia National Laboratory continues.
Discussions
with Y-12 Site Office management regarding the scoping visit for the safety
management inspection are ongoing.
Office of Safeguards and Security Evaluations
(OA-10)
OA-10 participated in a meeting with representatives from the
Offices of Security,
Counter-intelligence, the National Nuclear Security
Administration, and others to develop a consolidated DOE response to address
concerns identified in an IG report regarding the foreign visits and
assignments program.
Office of Emergency Management Oversight
(OA-30)
OA-30 met with the Director of
Administration, ME-40, to review progress made in response to the Review of
the Headquarters Facilities Emergency Response Plans, March 2002. ME initiated several significant
improvements and is effectively working closely with the Office of Security
(SO) and the principal secretarial offices.
OA will continue to monitor the program implementation progress and
participate as a member of the HQ Occupant Emergency Planning Team.
OA-30
has expressed concerns with, and offered options to address, the evolving
definition of roles and responsibilities between SO and the National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA) for the management of the HQ Emergency
Operations Center and the management of the HQ Emergency Management Team. OA noted that the revised version of DOE
Order 151.1B, currently in REVCOM for comments, does not adequately define SO
and NNSA responsibilities and interfaces for these functions. OA-30 will be providing formal comments on
the revisions proposed in DOE Order 151.1B.
Office of Environment, Safety and Health
Evaluations (OA-50)
EM approved the
Corrective Action Plan (CAP) for the Hanford (PFP specific) safety management
inspection on October 8, 2002. OA has
reviewed the plan and found that the CAP appropriately addressed all findings
identified as a result of the subject inspection.
The OA-50 office director visited the Pantex site on November 4, 2002,
where she participated in management meetings and toured various facilities.
Final preparations have been made for the upcoming AAAHC survey and consultative visits at Sandia National Laboratories-New Mexico and California and Brookhaven National Laboratory.