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The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced today the results of a year-long effort to put the power grid in the hands of consumers through technology. The Pacific Northwest GridWise™ Demonstration Project found that ...

Issued to Battelle Memorial Institute related to Radiological Events and the Independent Assessment Program at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

DOE O 443.1A, Protection of Human Subjects

Drug Testing and Security Clearances of Contractor Personnel

Request for Concurrence on three Temporary Variance Applications Regarding Fire Protection and Pressure Safety at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory

This paper addresses an often overlooked “backdoor” into critical infrastructure control systems created by modem connections. A modem’s connection to the public telephone system is similar to a corporate network connection to the Internet. By tracing typical attack paths into the system, this paper provides the reader with an analysis of the problem and then guides the reader through methods to evaluate existing modem security. Following the analysis, a series of methods for securing modems is provided. These methods are correlated to well-known networking security methods.

This paper addresses an often overlooked “backdoor” into critical infrastructure control systems created by modem connections. A modem’s connection to the public telephone system is similar to a corporate network connection to the Internet. By...

The Department of Energy's Strategic Petroleum Reserve is a critical component of this Nation's energy security strategy. Established in 1975 in the aftermath of the oil embargo, the Reserve is one of the primary means of assuring U.S. energy stability and security in the event of a petroleum production or import disruption. The Department of Interior operates a Royalty-in-Kind program designed to handle oil collected from private production platform operators in the Gulf of Mexico as royalties to the Federal Government. Through a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Energy and the Department of Interior, a portion of the royalty oil has been used to fill the Reserve. The Department of Interior's Mineral Management Service (MMS) transfers oil to the Department of Energy at specific oil terminal locations referred to as "market centers." MMS and the Department use contractors to both deliver and receive oil at the market centers. Since 2002, MMS has transferred over 11 2 million barrels of royalty oil to the Department, with an approximate value of $4.4 billion. The Department plans to use the royalty oil to increase the size of the Reserve from 727 million barrels of oil to 1 billion barrels as authorized by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. Because of the significant value of royalty oil and the importance of the Reserve to U.S. energy security, we initiated an audit to evaluate the effectiveness of the Department of Energy's control system over the receipt of royalty oil.

Department of Energy's Receipt of Royalty Oil

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