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The National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) mission includes maintaining and enhancing the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile, reducing global danger from weapons of mass destruction, and providing safe and effective nuclear propulsion. To achieve its mission goals, the NNSA utilizes many classified and unclassified computer networks and individual systems. Given the sensitivity of the infonnation residing on these networks and systems, strong cyber security measures are essential for protecting operational, personally identifiable, and other critical data from compromise. In Fiscal Year 2006, NNSA officials reported that they expended just over $90 million on cyber security in an effort to protect its information technology resources.

The National Nuclear Security Administration's Implementation of the Federal Information Security Management Act

Device Assembly Facility Utilization

Bennion Student Union, 1784 Science Center Drive, Room 109, University Place, Idaho Falls, ID 83402.

The mission of Technical Area 18 (TA-I 8) at the National Nuclear Security Administration's (NNSA) Los Alamos National Laboratory (Los Alamos) was to conduct nuclear criticality experiments and hands-on training in nuclear safeguards, criticality safety and emergency response. TA-18 was the only facility in the United States capable of performing these nuclear criticality experiments needed to validate safety evaluations, establish limits for operations involving special nuclear material (SNM), and provide criticality training. Experiments were performed on five one-of-a-kind criticality machines and required a diverse set of SNM and highly skilled technical personnel.

Management Controls over the National Nuclear Security Administration's Ability to Maintain Capability of the TA-18 Mission

Fact sheet describing what is being done to modernize electricity transmission and distribution

Fact sheet describing what is being done to modernize electricity transmission and distribution

I11 suppoi-t of its mission, the Department of Energy spends over $2 billioil each year on infonnation teclulology and has a current inventory of approxiinately 800 info~mations ystems, including up to 11 5,000 personal computers, many powerful supercomputers, numerous servers, and a broad array of related peripheral equipment. The unclassified computers and electroil~c inelllory devices in these infomlation technology systeins often contain "unclassified controlled infoimation." This tenn includes unclassified controlled nuclear information, proprietary information, export controlled information, official use only inforn~ationa, nd personally identifiable infom~ation(P II), which can include employees' social security numbers, places of birth, and dates of birth.

Excessing of Computers Used for Unclassified Controlled Information at the Idaho National Laboratory