1. 2018 EFCOG Safeguards & Security Working Group Annual Meeting
Michael Schwartz
Safeguards & Security Working Group, Chair
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
July 17, 2018

2. Safeguards & Security Working Group Leadership Team
Chair: Michael Schwartz, PNNL
Vice Chair: Wade Nelson, LANL
Secretary: Michelle Stellflug, PNNL
DOE Liaison: Marc Brooks, AU-51
EFCOG Sponsoring Director: John Clymo, SNL
Subgroups and Subgroup Chairs:
Information Security, Wade Nelson, LANL
Physical Security, Stephen Porter, LLNL
Material Control and Accountability, Chris Goans, Y-12-CNS

3. Safeguards and Security Mission and Scope
It is the mission of the Safeguards and Security Working Group (SSWG) to continuously improve Safeguards & Security (S&S) performance across U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) by focusing on the protection of Nuclear Material (NM) and Special Nuclear Material (SNM), sensitive information, classified matter, assets, and personnel.
Primary Objectives include:
Enabling the successful execution of DOE missions and programs by promoting security practices that deliver efficient, safe, and securable outcomes.
Provide a forum for the active exchange of ideas, approaches and lessons learned that enhances collaboration, and encourages interaction between DOE management and contractors.
Serve as a consensus board for emerging security directives proposed by DOE and for the interpretation and consistent application of existing DOE directives.
Assure the goals of EFCOG and DOE are met through effective planning and execution.
Promote continuous improvement and professional development.

4. FY 2018 Focus Areas and Planned Achievements
During FY 2018, the SSWG continues to focus on key areas to address current or emerging challenges and to deliver efficiency and effectiveness in the deployment of the S&S Programs.
Increasing global concerns for terrorist related scenarios, active shooter/workplace violence, insider threats, and other low-level threats may create challenges in security risk assessment that uses a regulatory-driven basis to inform the calculations of S&S program effectiveness.
The sub-groups of the SSWG focus FY2018 partially on the analysis of these challenges to policy implementation and assist with the identification of best practices for implementing a Site or Facility security program, to include the assessment of risk and performance.

5. Best Practices Development Status and Plans for FY18
Information Security
Develop the IOSC Categorization best practice
Assist in the review and development of an OPSEC Handbook
Physical Security
Assist in policy review and implementation of programs related to security technology infrastructure
Review and support development of implementation for the Design Basis Threat policy, and associated Security Risk Management Technical Standard

6. Best Practices Development Status and Plans for FY18
Material Control and Accountability
Develop MC&A Centers of Excellence (COE) points-of-contact.
Develop Sub-Topical Working Groups to assist in policy review and implementation of programs related to budgets and staffing for MC&A programs, in consideration of enhanced safeguards controls.
SSWG Joint Sub-Group Activities
Develop member database and subject matter expertise contact list.
Conduct annual SSWG meeting

7. Scheduled Activities
Material Control and Accountability sub-group meeting April 25th in New Mexico
Information Security sub-group meeting July in NM
Physical Security sub-group meeting July 17-19, in NM
Joint SSWG meeting July in NM

8. Summary/Issues
SSWG continues to work with DOE and sites to identify issues that are having programmatic impacts
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