Energy halts use of classified discs, drives
Abraham's directive follows an announcement earlier this month that Los Alamos National Laboratory employees had lost two Zip discs containing classified material. Lab workers are searching for the discs amid more than 2,000 safes and vaults. The lab's director has halted all operations at Los Alamos, and Abraham has directed that classified operations will not resume until Energy's deputy secretary, Kyle McSlarrow, and the National Nuclear Security Administration's administrator, Linton Brooks, confirm that newly implemented corrective actions improve CREM management.
"While we have no evidence that the problems currently being investigated are present elsewhere, we have a responsibility to take all necessary action to prevent such problems from occurring at all," Abraham said in a statement.
CREM includes all types of classified hard drives or computer discs.
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