David Caskey discusses his dedication to the objectives of protecting nuclear facilities and the monitoring of the delivery of equipment for the Nuclear and Radiological Security project within the Global Partnership Program.

David Caskey is a Physical Protection Systems Specialist for Gregg Services (Raytheon Canada Limited).

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Physical Protection Objectives

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Physical Protection Objectives

I’ve worked in the general field of physical security for about 25 years, I’d say, in my career—most of the last 10 years in Russia. A couple of other places in the world, but mainly Russia. It has been very good.

I am David Caskey, one of the members of the technical team on physical security of the Canadian Global Partnership Program. I retired six years ago from the top of one of the U.S. national labs. I expected to have a quiet retirement, but there is something about this sort of work that inspires a lot of commitment and dedication for the objectives, so I wanted to continue to have some dealings with it, maybe part-time. So I started doing some consulting, but it has grown. This is a really great program; I think, that Canada is sponsoring, a big commitment. I’ve enjoyed it—they have a really good organization, good people, good work to do, and the more I have gotten into it the more time I seem to spend—almost 100 percent now.

My role is technical adviser, as Nicole has indicated earlier. We help Mark and Nicole with the material they present us, going over the plans, judgements as to whether they are going to be cost-effective and appropriate in the way they are charging us for it and what they are going to do. We make decisions together about whether they are justified in everything they want to do, or whether they should reduce part of it, for their next implementing arrangement. What we hope to do today, as she said, is see some of the equipment that has been delivered since the first contract was signed and start working on the scope of the next contract—what would be appropriate for this place, that would bring it up to international standards, yet not be excessive but be effective. That is what we hope to do.