Office of Security andThreat Management

**Mission** The Office of Security and Threat Management directly supports the Secretary and Deputy Secretary in fulfilling their authority over Department of Energy security. It achieves this by fielding a unified, enterprise-wide policy that ensures consistent protection of all critical assets and national security missions. These assets include classified matter, radiological materials, chemical materials, biological agents, select agents and toxins, critical infrastructure, government property, and personnel from malevolent acts. This comprehensive approach enables robust strategic partnerships. It achieves this mission through several key activities: creating and disseminating safeguards and security policies, implementing the National Industrial Security and Technical Security Programs, providing comprehensive security expertise to assist Headquarters and field elements with site protection planning and operations, and offering safeguards and security technical assistance, performance testing, and support for emerging technologies.