IG Audit – Department of Energy's Implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12

The Department of Energy’s Implementation of Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12; DOE/IG-0860 February 2012

  • “Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12 (HSPD-12), Policies for a Common Identification Standard for Federal Employees and Contractors, was established in August 2004 to enhance national security and mandate the use of a Federal government-wide standard for secure and reliable forms of identification for Federal employees and contractors. HSPD-12 required that the identification be issued based on sound criteria for verifying an employee’s identity; strongly resistant to identity fraud, tampering, counterfeiting and terrorist exploitation; able to be rapidly authenticated electronically; and, issued only by providers with reliability established by an official accreditation process…We found that, despite 7 years of effort and expenditures of more than $15 million, the Department had yet to meet all HSPD-12 requirements. In particular, the Department had not fully implemented physical and logical access controls in accordance with HSPD-12. Furthermore, the Department had not issued HSPD-12 credentials to many uncleared contractor personnel at its field sites. Specifically: None of the 5 field sites reviewed had fully implemented physical access controls in
    accordance with HSPD-12 for the more than 40,000 employees requiring access to those facilities.”
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