Services & Products

• Human Resources Management
• Surveillance and Maintenance of Facilities
• Janitorial Services
• Grounds Maintenance
• Roadway/Parking Lot Maintenance
• Railroad Rail Inspection and Maintenance
• Computing and Telecommunication
• Fleet Management
• Real and Personal Property Management
• Records Management and Document Control
  
• Site Security
  • Information Security
  • Physical Security
  • Classification Security
  • Cyber Security
• Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) and Quality
• Radiological Control
• Radiological Instrument Calibration and Maintenance
• Environment, Safety, and Health (ES&H) and Quality
• Environmental Management
  • Waste Management
  • Pollution Prevention
  • Recycling
• Support to DOE
• Training
• Utilities
• Records Management:

  The records management organization is responsible for the creation, maintenance and disposition of the records generated for the Department of Energy at the Paducah Site. We provide a system for providing control over records and a system for ensuring that records are retained until their mandatory retention periods have been met.

  A record is any recorded information related to our contract with the Department of Energy, regardless of who created it, that documents a decision or an action. A records management program is essential to our work because it documents our own and our predecessor’s policies and decisions; furnishes successors with the information needed to understand current and past actions, aids in decision making; and protects the legal and financial rights of contractors and the Department of Energy. Yesterday’s records may seem of little importance until we are faced with an audit or discovery in support of litigation.

  As records are received in the Document Management Center, key attributes of each record are entered into the records management application along with the PDF image. The document hardcopy is stored in either the DMC vault or in the Federal Records Center. Swift & Staley processes an average of 800 records (58,000 pages) per month. In addition to processing the newly created records, the records management staff schedules the new and legacy records by assigning a DOE records schedule to the records and prepares the record for shipment to the Federal Records Center.

  Using records management principles produces cost savings, greater productivity and efficiency. This allows employees to spend less time looking for misplaced documents and have fewer files to maintain.

• Computing & Telecommunications:

  The Information Technology (IT) organization is a service provider organization that provides state of the art technology for access to the Local Area Network (LAN) which provides access to the Internet, email, data storage, and various applications. Services are provided internally and for the Remediation Services Contractor in Paducah. In addition, applications are supported that allow the Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency, state regulators, and Citizens Advisory Board personnel access to a significant number of records gathered over the years from the plant site while ensuring the security of the network.

  It is noteworthy that with the winning of the contract for Swift & Staley Team (SST) there was not a stand-alone network in place in Paducah. From the ground up this team obtained equipment, Internet services, software, and network devices. A small but powerful and safe LAN was built to support the DOE contractor operations. The DOE continues to be faced with new Cyber Security challenges, and as such, flows to the contractor enhanced security requirements. The sophistication of the SST LAN continues to grow by application of the latest software, hardware, and tactics while maintaining compliance with government cyber security requirements to protect the LAN from threats of all types.

  The operation and maintenance of the LAN includes protection of valuable data from outside influences of hackers, spammers, and subversive groups that would attempt to gather data from protected areas. Firewalls are in place to block unauthorized entry to the system. Spam blockers are in place that turn away approximately seventy percent of the email traffic that would otherwise enter the system and provide a potential risk to the LAN. Sophisticated tools are used to monitor, track and report usage to ensure a balanced system as well as stop inappropriate use of the government network.

  This protection of data and LAN is governed by a set of guidelines known as Cyber Security. We are a DOE contractor; therefore all of the networks must comply with DOE Cyber Security rules and regulations. We rigorously comply with these rules and regulations and have been tested and validated by government evaluators that we provide the seventeen families of protection that range from access control to restoration of data.

  With respect to applications, the IT organization provides a Help Desk service with a centralized telephone number and a monitored email address. Telephone support, hands on support and remote PC support is provided by the IT organization.

  Support is available for certain specialized applications on a request basis that range from financial account management to records management.