Audit Report: IG-0749

The Department's Energy, Science,and Environment Sites' Implementationof the Design Basis Threat

Office of Inspector General

December 14, 2006

December 14, 2006

The Department's Energy, Science,and Environment Sites' Implementationof the Design Basis Threat

'The Department of Energy uses the "Design Basis Threat" (DBT) process to guide and manage its safeguards and security program throughout the complex. The DBT identifies the most credible threats posed by adversaries to highly sensitive and classified Departmental qssets and operations. In essence, the DBT sets the standards that site safeguards and security programs are required to meet in order to protect Departmental operations and assets, including special nuclear material (SNM) and classified information. Post-September 1 1, 2001, the Department initiated a comprehensive effort to update its DBT to address the new challenges related to those events.

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    'Phe Department of Energy uses the "Design Basis Threat" (DBT) process to guide and
    manage its safeguards and security program throughout the complex. The DBT identifies
    the most credible threats posed by adversaries to highly sensitive and classified
    Departmental qssets and operations. In essence, the DBT sets the standards that site
    safeguards and security programs are required to meet in order to protect Departmental
    operations and assets, including special nuclear material (SNM) and classified
    information. Post-September 1 1, 2001, the Department initiated a comprehensive effort
    to update its DBT to address the new challenges related to those events.