U.S. Department of Energy security technologies

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has had a program that develops technologies to protect sensitive nuclear weapons facilities for more than 40 years. Basic security system engineering concepts are still valid, but the details of the system at DOE facilities must constantly be updated to respond to the escalating terrorist threat and the need to replace aging components and systems. The mission of the program is overwhelmingly diverse, as it must be, to protect an array of assets such as nuclear weapons, special nuclear material in various forms, components of nuclear weapons, classified nuclear weapons design information, nuclear facilities, national laboratories, and US energy infrastructure. Considering the facts that the nuclear weapons complex consists of dozens of facilities that are scattered all over the United States, and that no two facilities are alike, the technology development mission is very challenging