The ISRC is part of the National Security Division at PNNL which coordinates work for the DOE and other U.S. Government clients in the defense, law enforcement, and intelligence communities relating to security, intelligence, domestic and international safeguards for the protection and control of weapons grade nuclear materials, arms control/ nonproliferation, protection of strategic and high value assets pertaining to national security, and other national security issues. PNNL staff have deep and current experience in a wide range of security-related disciplines.

Mozart can be used to determine if there is sufficient information on a site's Internet web pages to compromise sensitive, proprietary, or classified activities or support adversarial targeting of individuals and programs. Mozart is an independent software utility that will incorporate information harvesting, characterization, and link visualization and analysis functionality.

Mozart automates the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory's award winning written Internet Presence Assessment Guide. This Guide defines the techniques and methodologies needed to perform an assessment of a site's Internet presence.

Mozart runs on any Windows computer with Internet access running Windows 2000, Windows NT 4.0 or newer, or Windows XP. No special video board or other hardware is required.

Secure Safe

Incidents of Security Concern throughout the DOE Complex regarding unsecured security containers demand a formative, proactive plan to halt the increasing trend. Secure Safe provides a positive technology-based mitigation to combat these threats to the Department's classified information.

The Security Policy Staff in the DOE Office of Security, and the ISRC, have developed a prototype "Secure Safe" device that monitors the state of a security container and reports that information whenever a person leaves the area.

Accountability and Surveillance - Tagging and Tracking

Development or application of devices designed to monitor and/or track assets. The level of sensor or system sophistication is determined by the value of the asset and can range from very sophisticated systems that measure and monitor special nuclear material, to RF Tags and Bar Codes that account for and track property or other forms of inventory.

(Size comparison) Our new, innovative RF Tag system uses a tiny microchip with micro-antennae that is read by a scan system interrogator. The system allows a variety of functions to be performed including the location of an item, date and time it was manufactured and inventoried, movements, routing, conditions of environment, and can be enabled/disabled by remote operations.

Data Presentation and Representation

In today's environment, those responsible for defensive and protective programs must deal with vast amounts of information as well as utilize sophisticated equipment and devices. It is imperative that the manner in which they interface or interact with the data output from sensors facilitates a clear and quick understanding of the situation. Capabilities in the area of multi-source data fusion, information visualization and information synthesis are powerful tools within these communities. Human factors and organizational structure/behavior capabilities play a large role in shaping how such data is displayed to security personnel to ensure the effectiveness of the system as a whole - and that the proper human responses are taken.

SPIRE, an advanced three-dimensional visualization technology, has been developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory to help solve the problem of information overload.

SPIRE-Spatial Paradigm for Information Retrieval and Exploration

SPIRE provides a wealth of tools for exploring the information, including query, subset, and trend analysis tools. This suite of tools allows the user to rapidly discover hidden information relationships by only reading pertinent documents from data such as technical and patent literature, marketing and business documents, web data, accident and safety reports, newswire feeds and message traffic. SPIRE has applications in many areas, including industrial competitiveness, strategic planning and medical research.

Physical Security

Physical, technical, or operational measures used in protecting personnel, critical assets, and the physical attributes of a system and related facilities against deliberate actions. Examples of physical security include access control measures, sensors for intrusion detection and alarm technology, facilitated threat assessment and display capability, delay and denial barriers, threat detection and inspection equipment, and protection/response forces.

Personnel Security & Reliability

Policies, procedures, and investigative activities established to ensure that employment of and/or granting an individual access to classified matter would not endanger the common defense and security and is clearly consistent with the national interest. This area includes additional or extraordinary measures such as continuous monitoring and evaluation of individual employees and accelerated access procedures.

Information Security

Integrated set of programs for the protection and control of classified and sensitive information using Operations Security, Classified Matter Protection and Control, Technical Surveillance Countermeasures, in conjunction with physical security, personnel security, communications security, and cyber security measures.

Technical Surveillance Countermeasures

Technologies and techniques to detect technical penetrations, identify technical security hazards, and discover technical and physical security weaknesses to any organization which processes, discusses, and/or stores classified information, restricted data, and sensitive but unclassified information, to include, but not limited to, classified discussion or processing areas, classified conference facilities, and sensitive but unclassified information facilities.

Telecommunications Security

Policy and implementation procedures for the secure installation of classified information processing equipment, installation and operation of crypto-equipment, secure transmission of classified information, and the protection of cryptologic principles and methods. Telecommunications security includes Communication Security, Crypto/COMSEC Access, Emission Security, and Protected Transmission Systems.

E-Learning for Security Inquiry Officials

Because security threats continually change, security inquiry officials need to employ high-level cognitive skills and problem-solving. Traditional training approaches focus on memorizing facts and procedures, which tends to produce learners who know the right answers but who do not understand the relevance of the facts or the underlying concepts required to solve new problems. In contrast, teaching by problem-solving uses real-world contexts that require the learner to actively apply knowledge. The guided-discovery approach provides coaching and support while learners work on problems adapted from actual work settings, and then diminishes the level of coaching as the learner gains knowledge and skill. PNNL used cognitive learning and guided-discovery concepts to develop an e-Learning application to train Department of Energy Security Incident Inquiry officials on human errors that contribute to security incidents. Learn more about the Enhanced Security Through Human Error Reduction (ESTHER) project and view the ESTHER CBT application.

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