Inspection Report: INS-O-00-01

The Department is seeking to increase its role in the
development of new technologies to detect and counter attacks
utilizing weapons of mass destruction. Such attacks include
chemical and biological agents and nuclear devices. Currently,
DOE is involved with this technology development for domestic
counter-terrorism purposes, and is also working to assist the
military with its preparation for weapons of mass destruction
attacks through work-for-others programs.
In December 1996, the Department’s Oak Ridge Operations
Office (ORO) entered into a $32 million, four year work-forothers
(WFO) interagency agreement with the Department of the
Army (Army) to develop the Block II Chemical Biological Mass
Spectrometer (CBMS). The purpose of the agreement was for
Lockheed Martin Energy Research, Inc. (LMER), the major
operating contractor at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL),
to design, build and demonstrate nine CBMS instruments with
the ability to rapidly detect and identify biological and chemical
warfare agents in a battlefield environment. Chemical warfare
agents to be detected and identified include nerve and mustard
gases; biological agents such as Botulinum toxin, ricin,
aflatoxins and an encephalitis virusis