Integrating Safeguards & Security with Operational Requirements at DOD Facilities in Europe

Department of Defense facilities in Europe are configured to optimize the accomplishment of each organization's mission. As requirements change and new ones are added, facilities are modified or upgraded. Unfortunately, safeguards and security requirements are often not considered at the tiire of construction or modification of facilities. There is not a clear understanding by some senior managers of integrated security systems concepts needed to safeguard and protect facilities, people and resources. This complicates the picture and can result in organizations constructing suboptimal systems. Before serious development of integrated security systems can take place, the professionals in the security disciplines must take the time and expend the effort to increase corporate awareness and understanding. Security means more than personnel with guns behind perimeters of barbed wire and concrete. Today's security systems must include both physical and electronic systems designed for the environment in which they operate. Safeguards and security are part the image an organization creates, part the systems it incorporates into its operations and part the physical and electronic devices and structures it constructs. This paper addresses the essential elements of integrating safeguards and security into the operations of an organization through engineering design of the proper mix of state-ofthe- art electronics, physical systems, architecture, and tactics into an integrated whole. It also discusses the work being done by the Corps of Engineers to design safeguards and security into their projects. The effectiveness of an overall system depends on providing the foundation or basic approach which capitalizes on the advantages of each particular discipline and balances it with its limitations. This assures the proper level of safeguards and security in a dynamic environment and allows en organization to meet new and changing developments. The setting for the paper is Europe where terrorism effects every aspect of society. What is currently happening in Europe could take place in the U. S. in the foreseeable future.