Inspection Report: IG-0585

Inspection of Implementation of Corrective Actions Resulting From Force-on-Force Performance Tests

Office of Inspector General

February 12, 2003

February 12, 2013

Inspection of Implementation of Corrective Actions Resulting From Force-on-Force Performance Tests

The Office of Independent Oversight and Performance Assurance (OA) conducts reviews of Department of Energy (DOE) facilities and operations to evaluate the status of, among other things, safeguards and security matters. Integral to these reviews are force-on-force performance tests. These are major tests of the overall effectiveness of all site safeguards and security elements involved in responding to a hypothetical threat scenario based on the design basis threat1 and identified site-specific threats. These tests employ an adversary team that tests the skills, procedures and equipment of those forces responsible for protecting DOE site security interests.

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    The Office of Independent Oversight and Performance Assurance (OA) conducts reviews of Department of Energy (DOE) facilities
    and operations to evaluate the status of, among other things,
    safeguards and security matters. Integral to these reviews are
    force-on-force performance tests. These are major tests of the
    overall effectiveness of all site safeguards and security elements
    involved in responding to a hypothetical threat scenario based on
    the design basis threat1 and identified site-specific threats. These
    tests employ an adversary team that tests the skills, procedures and
    equipment of those forces responsible for protecting DOE site
    security interests.
    The objective of our inspection was to determine if DOE has taken
    corrective actions to address findings resulting from recent forceon-
    force performance tests that were conducted at the Pantex Plant
    (Pantex) during January 24-March 17, 2000, and at Los Alamos
    National Laboratory’s (LANL’s) Technical Area 18 during
    October 2-12, 2000.