By the end of August each Department of Energy lab (including Jefferson Lab) will conduct a mandatory employee awareness program on the role of security and individual employee responsibility at their lab, at the request of the Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson.

The defense-related labs, Argonne National Lab, Oak Ridge National Lab, Brookhaven National Laboratory and Pacific Northwest National Laboratory underwent their "security stand-downs" on August 3. The rest of the DOE complex is expected to complete this requirement by Sept. 1, with the exclusion of Los Alamos National Lab, Sandia National Lab and Lawrence Livermore National National Lab, who conducted a two-day security stand-down in June and a classified computing stand-down in April.

At Jefferson Lab, a graded approach will take place starting August 19 with the core managers who will hear presentations about the Lab's overall security requirements, site security (including the new badging system to be installed later this fall), cyber-security, intellectual property and export controls.

After the August 19 briefing, the core managers will schedule meeting times to assemble their groups and convey the same information to the various work groups at the Lab. In addition, every presentation will be available on the Web starting August 19 at www.jlab.org/intralab/security. This briefing will become a part of each employee's training record to assure that the requirement is being met.

All JLab employees are asked to contact their supervisors if this security training has not been completed before the Sept. 1 deadline.

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Updated January 20, 2004