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Director's Message
Welcome to the Office of Security Technology and
Assistance
Larry D. Wilcher, Director
The Office of Security Technology and Assistance (HS-80)
is one of 13 subordinate offices within the Office of
Health, Safety and Security (HSS). HS-80 is committed
to improving the Department's safeguards and security
posture by providing safeguards and security subject
matter expertise upon request to assist field and Headquarters
elements and by deploying safeguards and security technologies
that serve as force multiplies for addressing the emerging
and challenging threats faced by the Department.
We work closely with the field, with Headquarters,
and with the other offices within HSS to ensure that
site assistance efforts are well coordinated and that
the lessons learned from deployed technologies are promulgated
throughout the complex. HS-80 subject matter experts
provided assistance to a number of field locations to
include: INL, LLNL, ORNL, Y-12, LANL, NSO, SRS, OST,
RL, SNL/NM, SNL/TTR, WIPP, Yucca Mountain, and the Pantex
and Kansas City Plants. With the restructuring of HSS,
we remain committed to continuing the customer-focused
safeguards and security assistance program that serves
the interests of the Department while at the same time
aggressively pursuing the deployment of technologies
that will improve safeguards and security over the coming
decades.
I also want to highlight the continuing services being
provided by the Safeguards and Security Information
Management System and the Incident Tracking and Analysis
System. These two powerful security information management
tools are provided by the Office of Security Assistance
to address a number of areas of interest to Headquarters
and Field Elements. Specifically, these systems provide
retrievable data that includes: registration of security
interests by facility/contract; FOCI, security surveys,
inspections, deficiencies tracking, corrective action
plans as well as incidents of security concern, inquiry
reports, and damage assessments.
I hope that you will find this web site helpful in
understanding what the Office of Security Technology
and Assistance is all about, and how and why we do the
things we do.
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