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*What does the DoD 5200.08-R do? ✔✔Implements DoD policies and minimum standards for
the physical protection of DoD personnel, installation, operations, and relate
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SAPPC – Physical Questions and
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*What does the DoD 5200.08-R do? ✔✔Implements DoD policies and minimum standards for
the physical protection of DoD personnel, installation, operations, and related resources.
The Reg addresses the physical security of personnel, installations, facilities, operations, and
related resources of DoD components.
*Can Combatant Commanders (COCOMs) deviate from 5200.08-R? ✔✔Yes, in overseas areas
where local conditions, treaties, agreements, and other arrangements with foreign governments
and allied forces require.
*For what categories is there separate guidance? ✔✔Classified info, SCIFs, Security policy for
protecting nuclear weapons, Security of DoD chemical agents, Nuclear reactors and materials,
Physical security arms, ammunition and explosives, SAP, and Security of DoD personnel
assigned to US missions abroad.
*Objectives of the 5200.08-R... ✔✔- Implement general policy
- Provide security guidance and general procedures that are harmonized and flexible.
- Reduce the loss, theft, diversion of, or damage to DoD assets through the use of advanced tech;
enhancing security while maintaining warfighting capability.
- Standardize personal ident./authenti. to DoD installations and facilities, including
interoperability.
*What is the physec program concerned with? ✔✔The active and passive measures designed to
prevent unauthorized access to personnel, equipment, installation, info, and to safeguard them
against espionage, sabotage, terrorism, damage, and criminal activity.
*What are physec programs designed for? ✔✔Prevention
*What are the physec threats? ✔✔- Foreign intelligence services
- Foreign military and paramilitary forces
- Terrorists and saboteurs
- Criminals
- Protest groups
- Disaffected persons
*What does physec planning include? ✔✔- Using biometric, electronic, and/or mechanical
technological security systems to mitigate vulnerability to threat and to reduce reliance on fixed
security forces.
- Physec programs to form basis of integrated defense plans to build it into contingency,
mobilization, antiterrorism, and wartime plans.
- Coord with other security disciplines
- Training security forces & others to defense against and response to, unauthorized penetrations.
- Creating and sustaining physec awareness training for all personnel.
*Name some of the physical protective and security procedural measures that physec employs.
✔✔- Security forces and owner/user personnel
- Military working dogs
- Physical barriers, facility hardening, and active delay/denial systems
- Secure locking systems, containers, and vaults
- Electronic security systems (IDS, radio frequency detectors, etc)
- Assessment or surveillance systems (CCTV, thermal imagers, radar)
- Protective lighting (visible, IT)
- Credential technologies, access control devices, biometrics, materiel or asset tagging systems,
and contraband detect. equip.
*Heads of DoD components shall designate ______ to oversee the physical security program.
✔✔A program manager
*The oversight function includes what aspects? ✔✔- Developing policies & procedures to
supplement the regs to meet specific needs
- Maintaining liaison with CI and LE entities to coord awareness, reporting, and provide credible
flow of crit info
- Formalizing security procedures for joint response to adverse or terrorist incidents
- Conducting specific physec threat assessments and update annually/as needed
- Establish & coord requirements for the acquisition of physec equipment and establish
procedures to identify requirements
- Develop training, qualification, and suitability req's for dedicated security forces.
*What is the goal of the security system for an installation, area, facility, or asset? ✔✔To
employ security-in-depth: to preclude/reduce the potential for sabotage, theft, trespass, terrorism,
espionage, and other criminal activity.
*What must be done to achieve the goal of security system? ✔✔A security system provides the
capability to deter, detect, identify, track, assess, record, communicate, delay, and respond to
unauthorized access activities.
*Describe the capability: Deterrence ✔✔As an immediate indication of deliberate attempts,
security probing, and warning for inadvertent or mistaken intention
*Describe the capability: Detect, identify and track ✔✔Through human, animal, or electronic
means, and alert security personnel to possible threats and attempts at unauthorized entry at or
shortly after time of occurrence
*Describe the capability: Assessment ✔✔Through use of video subsystems, patrols, or fixed
posts, assists in localizing and determining the size and intention of an unauthorized intrusion or
activity.
*Describe the capability: Delay ✔✔Through the use of active and passive security measures,
including a full range of barriers, impeding intruders in their efforts to reach their objective.
*Describe the capability: Response ✔✔Provide the use of designated, trained and properly
equipped security forces. The forces must also have assessed the situational requirements
through the detection and delay, accounting for sufficient warning and protection to the asset,
until the response force can be expected to arrive at the scene.
*___ and ___ are designed to enhance the baseline physec requirements at DoD installations and
facilities, due to heightened terrorist threat or action. ✔✔Threat level guidance and Force
Protection Conditions
*Where and by whom are the antiterrorism security measured employed? ✔✔As a whole, or in
part at installations and facilities
By the commander/director
*In what document are the antiterrorism security measure procedures found? ✔✔DoDI 2000.16
*___ shall establish procedures for physec planning, construction, and acquisition of facilities or
buildings as appropriate and in accordance with ___. ✔✔Heads of the DoD Components
UFC 4-010-01, Unified Facilities Criteria
*What does the Unified Facilities Criteria (UFC) instruction provide? ✔✔Protective design
planning, construction, sustainment, restoration, and modernization criteria for installations and
leased facilities
*What prescribed the UFC system? ✔✔Military Standard 3007F
*What provides guidance for the acquisition of Federal PIV credentials and supporting
equipment, when fulfilling the requirements for Federal standards of identity and access control?
✔✔Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 201-1
*T/F: DoD components securing existing doors with high security padlocks and hasps need to be
upgraded. ✔✔F
They may continue their use according to DoDM 5100.76-M, Physec of Sensitive Conventional
Arms, Ammunition and Explosives.
*New construction or planned upgrades to access doors for Category I and II Arms, Ammunition
& Explosives (AA&E) areas shall require the installation of the ___. ✔✔Internal Locking
Device
*T/F: Access control is an integral and interoperable part of DoD installation physec programs.
✔✔T
*Who must clearly define, consistent with DoD policy, the access control measures (tailored to
local conditions) required to safeguard personnel, facilities, protect capabilities, and accomplish
the mission? ✔✔Each installation commander/facility director
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