21st Century State Declarations F. A. Queirolo, A. Rialhe, W. Mandl, - - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

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International Atomic Energy Agency

21st Century State Declarations

• F. A. Queirolo, A. Rialhe, W. Mandl, J. Ng

Symposium of International Safeguards 2014-10-21

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Purpose of this presentation

Provide SGIM’s perspective on modernizing the transmission and processing of State

• submissions. Including:
• Current transmission methods and areas for

improvement

• SGIM conceptual requirements
• Current IAEA-SG IT landscape overview
• Future outlook

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Background

• SGIM: “The Backbone for State Declared

Information Management and Analysis”

• Manages State declarations which are

submitted in multiple forms and mediums

• Increasing volume of State reporting
• Expanding amount of unstructured

information (e.g. Additional Protocols, Small Quantity Protocols, etc.)

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SGIM – The Department’s Clearing House

The Department’s Centre for State Declared Information

Non-NPT Nuclear Material Accounting (INFCIRC/66) NAMIS Trafficking DB Additional Protocol Voluntary Reporting Scheme Import/Export Notifications (INFCIRC/207) NPT Nuclear Material Accounting (INFCIRC/153) SQP

Inventories

1968 1997 1993 1974 1971 2005 1998 1997

NAMIS = Np Am Monitoring Information System

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Stakeholders

• SRA*: submits declaration, provides

clarifications, responds to questions, resolves omissions

• SG (including SGIM): intake, processing,

analyzing, inspections

• IAEA non-SG (ARMS): Processes a copy of

the State declaration

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*SRA - State or Regional Authority responsible for safeguards implementation

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Current Transmission Methods

Declarations are currently transmitted via:

• Encrypted email sent to IAEA
• Physical Transfer- hand carried by inspectors or

State representatives to IAEA: digital media or paper

• Post- mailed via post/package delivery company

(e.g. DHL): digital media (CD, USB), or paper

• Fax: “hard copy that is hard to read”

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Current Transmission Paths

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Current Site Plan path to SG

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Current Issues with All Transfer Methods

• Labour intensive process
• All declarations require some level of

formatting/QC before inputting into our DB

• Acknowledgement processes is paper

based

• Security/Confidentiality Overhead
• Paper: ARMS/SG
• Electronic: Encryption/Certificates
• Languages (UN has 6)

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Issues with current mediums of transfer

• Paper declarations
• Completely manual entry
• Additional work for non-text
• Confidentiality Overhead (ARMS  SG)
• Legibility (faxes)
• Tracking
• Electronic declarations
• 1-way communication
• Varied file formats and standards

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Desired Functionality

• 2-way communication
• SRA submits State declaration and can respond

to requests for clarification

• IAEA-SG acknowledges receipt and can request

clarification

• Automatically perform basic QC
• Required & data validation
• Alerts SRA user of potential errors, and allows

corrections before submission

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Desired Functionality (cont.)

• Security
• As required user accounts for SRA users
• User/password administration for SRA and

IAEA-SG admin

• Backwards compatibility and interoperability
• SRA contact list

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Desired future workflow

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Landscape - IT Security

• Connections to SG are only permitted from

inspectors laptop (VPN) or IAEA equipment to the SG LAN (or DMZ in special cases)

• All State declarations will reside on ISE (a

secure network)

• ISE and Information Classification policies

are being updated

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Landscape – IT Infrastructure

• Agency-wide LAN: SG Confidential data and

above could not reside there (SPRICS 2.0)

• SG-LAN: non IAEA-SG equipment can not

access it (remote monitoring equipment)

• “Member State Data Submission Hub”

(MSDSH) – conceptual stage Strong consideration will be given to re-using existing SG services and integration of States components

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Conclusions

• Need for modernization has been

recognized and there have been primarily individual efforts to date

• IAEA SG is looking for an extensible unified

solution which is compatible with existing State NMAC* systems

• Collaboration with States is necessary for

project scoping, funding, requirements gathering, and integration

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*Nuclear Material Accounting and Control