Accountable Classified Removable Electronic Media ACREM Implementation at the Kansas City Plant

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Accountable Classified Removable Electronic Media
(ACREM) Implementation at the Kansas City Plant

• April 20, 2005
• Laurel Hautala
• Manager, Information Protection and Planning

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General Information

• Stand-down directed by Secretary of Energy, July
  23, 2004
• All ACREM as Currently Defined
• All ACREM SRD and Above
• ACREM Defined
• Removable hard drives Laptops with
  non-removable hard drives
• Floppy Disks, CD ROMs, DVDs
• Zip, Jazz, and Bernoulli disks
• USB flash drives

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The Kansas City Plant

• Produces 85 of the non-nuclear components for
  completed nuclear weapons
• SIGMA
• Classified Networks
• Internal (CRONOS)
• Hosting
• Processing

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Initial Challenges

• Unclear Policy
• Identification and Training of Users and
  Custodians
• Accountability Systems
• Rush to Restart
• Training Verification
• Managing Phase II

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Solutions

• Detailed Work Instructions
• Consistent Application of Policy and Marking
• Multiple Training Sessions and Two Different
  Courses
• One Accountability System for ACREM
• Training Verification
• Six-Sigma Black-Belt Team

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Phase II Challenges

• Weekly Inventory
• Data Center

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Phase II - Solutions

• Electronic Inventory
• Data Center ACREM Implementation Team
• Shut-Down
• Compensatory Measures
• Variances

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Overall Successes

• Nine Working-Day Shut-Down
• Low Implementation Costs
• 315,000
• 7,000 pieces of ACREM were excluded from itemized
  accountability requirements
• 5,730 pieces of ACREM were destroyed

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Future Endeavors

• Barcodes
• Passive RF Tags

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Any Questions?
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