The Safeguards and Security Policy Review Initiative

While DOE safeguards and security policy has been effective in describing a protection regime that adequately protects the national security assets under the purview of the DOE, it has not been subject to a thorough review to verify all requirements and ensure that topical requirements, if met, describe a fully integrated protection design since the efforts of the late 1980s that included the Cerberus study, the policy rewrite led by Mr. Aquilina, and the effort to create the safeguards and security standards and criteria. The Office of Security Policy began, in November 2006, a year long effort to thoroughly review and baseline the principal safeguards and security directives. This paper briefly reviews the background of that effort, provides the results of an effort to identify key objectives and guidelines for the effort, and reviews progress to date. The paper presents results from the review of DOE Manual 470.4-3 Change 1, Protective Force, and DOE Manual 470.4-6, Nuclear Material Control and Accountability. Results presented for each include the number of requirements initially identified, the percentage of these that respond to external requirements, the final number of requirements used to draft a revision of the manual, and a discussion of the results of an effort to increase the emphasis upon performance-based outcomes. Also included will be a discussion of the format(s) and presentation methods chosen to improve the utility of the directive and the strategies employed to improve the accessibility of the requirements to those without extensive safeguards and security training and experience, such as those charged with implementing safeguards and security policy at sites with few security assets.