December 3, 2014

Government-Owned Firearms Inventory at the Nevada National Security Site

The Department of Energy's (Department) Nevada National Security Site (NNSS) has a protective force provided by WSI Nevada to ensure the physical protection of national safeguards and security interests.  WSI Nevada is responsible for ensuring proper accountability and control of all its assigned property used in the performance of the protective force contract with the Department, including the protective force's firearms.  Therefore, the inspection was initiated to determine whether NNSS properly managed and maintained its government-owned firearms inventory.

Our inspection revealed that NNSS had 100 percent accuracy in their firearms inventory and no firearms losses within the past 3 years; developed and implemented an adequate inventory process to track and account for its firearms to include storage and security; performed required routine maintenance on its firearms; implemented an effective process to address the loss of firearms; and adequately monitored, controlled, and disposed of its excess firearms.

Topic: Management & Administration