National Engineering and Technology Solutions of Sandia, the Honeywell-owned prime for the Sandia National Laboratories, agreed to a $152,000 settlement with the Department of Energy over the unauthorized disclosure of classified information at the lab some time around 2019.
The fine was not the only penalty Sandia paid, but other details of the enforcement were not disclosed in a two-page cover letter posted online by the enforcement office for DOE’s Office of Enterprise Assessments.
“DOE’s Office of Enforcement and DOE/NNSA [National Nuclear Security Administration] consider this a preventable, security significant event that resulted from a lack of attention to classified information security requirements,” reads the letter signed by Charles Verdon, the acting NNSA administrator, and Kevin Dressman, director of the Office of Enforcement at the Office of Enterprise Assessments.
Sandia violated classification rules by storing unmarked classified data, which was later determined to be confidential/restricted data, on an information system that was not cleared to store such data, DOE said in its letter.
