Director's Perspective
Welcome to the Office of Technical Guidance
Edith A. Chalk, Director
Welcome to the Office of Technical Guidance. Our
technical guidance activity develops and issues Government-wide
and Department-wide technical guidance to ensure that
classified nuclear weapons-related information and
other information assets critical to the national
security and to other Governmental, commercial, or
private interests are identified for proper protection.
HS-92 consists of two program areas - weapons and
technology. The weapons program oversees the issuance
of classification and control guidance in all areas
of nuclear weapons science, design, development, weaponization,
production, military use, use control, testing, stockpile
stewardship, manufacture, arms control and verification,
nonproliferation, intelligence, mutual defense treaties,
computer code activities, and inertial confinement
fusion. The technology program oversees the issuance
of classification and controlled guidance in technology
areas such as isotope separation, chemical processing,
tritium technology, space power, military and naval
reactors, sensitive technologies, strategic petroleum
reserve, safeguards bilateral agreements, weapon and
material security, facilities security, utility system
security, critical energy infrastructure, and intelligence.
Additionally, HS-92 oversees the review, analysis,
and approval of local classification guides prepared
by DOE field and contractor organizations to ensure
conformance with Headquarters classification guidance.
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