US Department of Energy security technologies

For over 40 years, the US Department of Energy (DOE) has maintained a program that develops technologies to support safeguards and security policies in the protection of nuclear weapons facilities. Basic security system engineering concepts are still valid, the details of the systems at DOE facilities must constantly be updated to respond to the emerging terrorist threat and capabilities and the need to replace aging components and systems. The mission of the Technology Development Program (TDP) is overwhelmingly diverse, as it must be, to protect a wide array of critical assets such as nuclear weapons, special nuclear material in various forms, components of nuclear weapons, classified nuclear weapons design information, nuclear facilities, national laboratories, cyber systems, and US energy infrastructure. Considering the fact that the nuclear weapons complex consist of dozens of facilities that are located in various regions all over the United States, and that no two facilities are alike, the TDP fulfills a very challenging role.