THE IAEA’s XCAM SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM Project Report

The IAEA initiated the development of the XCAM System (formerly referred to as the Next Generation Surveillance System – NGSS) in the year 2003 to replace the aging surveillance workhorse, the DCM-14. Since then, the project has been taken through conceptual and detailed design to prototype production and testing. The project progress has been reported upon at INMM Annual Meetings since 2006. By mid-2010, around the time of the presentation of this publication, the XCAM is scheduled for completion and the first fielding of the system is foreseen for late 2010. The following paper will present the XCAM system in its current form and report on the latest testing and evaluation results. Specific focus will be given on the implementation of the authentication and encryption scheme that will allow for authentication and encryption of all data at the sensor level and an open Data Consolidator infrastructure. A list of remaining tasks and an outlook on the implementation of XCAM will conclude the paper.