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Re: Lochbaum on OSRE's



> Dave Lochbaum wrote:

> 

> > The OSREs pit one or more mock attackers against

> the plant's

> > armed responders. Because the OSRE is a simulated

> attack, no

> > real weapons are used. Consequently, OSRE

> controllers are used

> > to determine outcomes throughout the OSRE. For

> example, the

> > mock attacker(s) do not really blow up locked

> doors, so the

> > controllers determine based on the amount of

> simulated explosives

> > carried if the door is breached. Likewise, when an

> attacker encounters

> > an armed responder, the controller determines who

> shot whom.



The issue is how to best simulate an attack to gauge

how well the security force repels it.  Since real

weapons obviously can not be used, they have to make

the best out of it.



You have to rememeber that while these expercises are

going on, there are still plant workers that need to

do their job to ensure that the plant remains

operating safely.  What if someone tried to attack the

plant WHILE the OSRE was going on (e.g. the guards did

not have live ammo).



How would the guards know to use live rounds because

it was now the "real" thing?  Wouldn't that be very

dangerous for the mock attackers knowing that they

could be mistaken for a real intruder and killed?



It's not as easy as taking two teams to a remote (and

secure) area to commence war games with "laser tag"

type weapons.



Tim



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