Program Objectives & Requirements

See DOE Order 142.3 - Unclassified Foreign Visits and Assignments, for the full text of Department of Energy requirements for access to DOE sites, information, and technologies.

Objectives

To define a program for unclassified foreign national access to Department of Energy (DOE) sites, information, and technologies by establishing requirements for the following:

1. An approval process for foreign national visits and assignments consistent with U.S. and DOE national security and program-specific policies, requirements, and objectives.
2. Review of foreign national access requests to ensure that unauthorized access to information, equipment, or technologies is denied.
3. A process for documenting and tracking visits and assignments by foreign nationals to DOE sites or involving DOE information or technologies.

Requirements

DOE is a leader in science and technology and is responsible for advancing U.S. capabilities in energy supply, related environmental cleanup and management, and economical energy sources while protecting U.S. national security interests associated with these energy technologies. DOE values the contributions of international collaborations to the scientific and technological strength of the United States and to Departmental mission success and offers foreign national visitors and assignees access to DOE's facilities, staff, and information as participants in a broad range of unclassified work. Foreign national access to DOE sites, programs, information, and technologies will be approved provided the access is needed to support the program objectives of DOE and/or U.S. national interests.