Inspection Report: IG-0585

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.