February 18, 2015

DOE Raises Concerns For CNS After Security Incidents Last Year at Y-12

By ExchangeMonitor

The Department of Energy’s enforcement office is raising concerns after investigating security incidents that occurred last year involving an unclassified waste stream at the Y-12 National Security Complex. The incidents occurred just before Consolidated Nuclear Security, LLC, took over the M&O contract at Y-12 in July 2014, but DOE’s Office of Enterprise Assessments’ Office of Enforcement has identified issues that CNS should respond to. “This event resulted from failure to evaluate work control processes and operation conditions for work activities in a classified subject area, contributing to inaccurate identification and marking of classified information or information that could become classified through compilation or association,” states a Feb. 13 letter from DOE to CNS released this week.

Other areas of concern include “confusion within the workforce about what information is actually classified,” the letter states. Additionally, “contractor self-assessment of classification, classified matter protection and control, and operations security is another area of concern. The self-assessment results that the Office of Enforcement reviewed lacked sufficient scope and depth to ensure both compliance and performance consistent with classified information security requirements.” DOE has decided to not pursue further enforcement action related to the incidents at this time.

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