(Direct Report to the Deputy Director for National Security Programs)
Mission
The Office of Security and Threat Management directly supports the Secretary and Deputy Secretary in fulfilling their authority over Department of Energy security. It achieves this by fielding a unified, enterprise-wide policy that ensures consistent protection of all critical assets and national security missions. These assets include classified matter, radiological materials, chemical materials, biological agents, select agents and toxins, critical infrastructure, government property, and personnel from malevolent acts. This comprehensive approach enables robust strategic partnerships. It achieves this mission through several key activities: creating and disseminating safeguards and security policies, implementing the National Industrial Security and Technical Security Programs, providing comprehensive security expertise to assist Headquarters and field elements with site protection planning and operations, and offering safeguards and security technical assistance, performance testing, and support for emerging technologies.
Functions
- Develops and issues policies, procedures, and technical guidance for all DOE security areas, including program management, security planning, physical security, protective forces, information protection, personnel security, and nuclear materials control and accountability. This includes defining security's analytical and authorization bases and maintaining supporting software, such as the Security Risk Assessment Software, to facilitate implementation.
- Interprets Office Directive requirements, analyzes safeguards and security systems and procedures, and resolves complex, department-wide issues within the scope of the mission, when requested.
- Manages the Department of Energy’s deterministic Design Basis Threat (DBT) to ensure its alignment with the Nuclear Security Threat Capabilities Assessment and other threat intelligence, supporting the Secretary and Deputy Secretary
- Maintains the Safeguards and Security Information Management System (SSIMS), which centralizes, collects, analyzes, and integrates current and historical security information from various sources, including surveys, findings, and related DOE systems.
- Establishes comprehensive policy, procedures, and guidance for foreign visits and assignments, and for the foreign ownership, control, or influence (FOCI) programs.
- Coordinates with Other Government Agencies (OGAs) on planning and implementation issues, explores new approaches to enhance security at DOE facilities, and establishes the framework and projection methods for protecting OGA-funded activities at DOE facilities (strategic partnership programs)
- Serves as DOE's primary representative in the development of Government-wide safeguards and security policies and standards, including Executive Orders, proposed legislation, regulatory actions, and Presidential directives.
- Represents the Department’s interests in domestic and international interagency counter-terrorism security technology research and development forums.
- Offers subject matter expertise and DOE representation for international, inter-agency, and intra-agency safeguards and security policy, contributing to the development of Government-wide security policy and standards.
- Directs and manages the Foreign Visits and Assignments program and maintains the DOE electronic FOCI (e-FOCI) system.
- Makes determinations on security mitigation plans for companies whose FOCI exceeds Departmental thresholds and serves as DOE’s liaison to other Federal agencies and the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. regarding FOCI actions.
- Administers Access Permit requests for Restricted Data from commercial and private entities.