Classified Work Halt At Sandia Could Last Two Weeks

The halt to classified operations mandated at U.S. Energy Department laboratories could last up to two weeks at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico while an inventory of thousands of classified data storage devices is conducted, Associated Press reported today (see GSN, July 26).

“It’s going to really take a couple of days to get our arms around what’s required,” Sandia spokesman John German said.

The department ordered the halt of classified operations in response to the disappearance earlier this month of two computer disks from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. 

Sandia employees were briefed Monday on security practices for data storage devices, German said.

Meanwhile, a spokesman for Los Alamos, where work has been suspended in all laboratory divisions, said yesterday that up to 20 percent of the facility’s lowest security risk operations are ready to resume (Leslie Hoffman, Associated Press, July 28).

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