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NNSA Seeks Savings Through New Cyber, Site Security Policy

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Monday, July 12th, 2010

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By George Lobsenz The National Nuclear Security Administration last week announced new policies on cyber security and protection of Energy Department nuclear weapons facilities that it says will save tens of millions of dollars through new, more realistic terrorist threat assessments, increased flexibility for sites to develop better protection plans and the elimination of some unneeded controls on computer disks and other electronic media holding certain classified data. Officials at NNSA, the semi-autonomous DeE agency that operates the department's nuclear…

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