Safeguards and Security

The mission of the Office of Nuclear Energy (NE) Safeguards and Security (S&S) Program is to protect DOE assets and interests at the Idaho National Laboratory (INL).

Specifically, the S&S Program is designed to protect special nuclear material, Government property, and information from theft, diversion, sabotage, espionage, unauthorized access, compromise, and other hostile acts that may cause unacceptable adverse impacts on national security, program continuity, or the health and safety of employees, the public, or the environment.

The S&S program consists of eight major components:

• Protective Forces: The Physical Protection Protective Forces activity provides for security guards or other specialized personnel and equipment, training, and management needed to effectively carry out the protection tasks during normal and security emergency conditions.



• Security Systems: The Physical Security Protection Systems activity provides for equipment to protect vital security interests and Government property pursuant to the local threat. Equipment and hardware includes intrusion detection and assessment devices, property fences, barriers, secure storage, lighting, sensors, entry/access control devices, locks, explosive detection, and vital components and tamper-safe monitoring.



• Transportation: The Transportation activity provides for all security-related transportation for intra-site transfers of special nuclear materials and other classified material that is not funded through the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) office of Transportation Safeguards.



• Information Security: This activity ensures that classified and sensitive unclassified matter is adequately protected. The scope of this activity includes export controls, classified matter protection and control, technical surveillance countermeasures, and operations security.



• Personnel Security: The Personnel Security activity includes the security clearance program, adjudication, security awareness and education, visit control, Human Reliability Program, psychological/medical assessments, and administrative review costs.



• Material Control and Accountability: The Material Control and Accountability (MC&A) activity provides for the protection of special nuclear materials (SNM), nuclear weapons, test devices, and weapons components and parts by accurately measuring and inventorying SNM.



• Program Management: The Program Management activity includes policy oversight and development and updating of security plans, assessments, and approvals to determine if assets are at risk. Also encompassed are contractor management and administration and planning and integration of security activities into facility operations.



• Cyber Security: The Cyber Security activity includes security-related unclassified computer security and classified computer security and protecting the transmission of sensitive unclassified and classified information telecommunications methods (COMSEC), TEMPEST, and cyber infrastructure.