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Physical Security

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Research and Development to develop and enhance methods, tools, and technologies that advance the technical basis necessary to optimize and modernize a nuclear facility’s security posture. The pathway will: (1) conduct R&D on aspects of risk-informed techniques for physical security to account for a dynamic adversary; (2) apply advanced modeling and simulation tools to better inform physical-security scenarios and reduce uncertainties in various force-on-force modeling results; (3) assess benefits from proposed enhancements and novel mitigation strategies and explore changes to best practices, guides, or regulation to enable modernization; and (4) enhance and provide the technical basis for stakeholders to employ new security methods, tools, and technologies to achieve physical security.

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