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TAGS: PARM PREL CWC
SUBJECT: CHEMICAL WEAPONS CONVENTION (CWC): WRAP-UP FOR 28 
JULY 2006 
 
 
This is CWC-66-06. 
 
¶1. (U) The CW Delegation had a quiet week with no meetings 
scheduled for the foreseeable future.  Delegates took the 
opportunity to host the new South African delegate Martinus 
Van Schalkwijk to lunch and found him to be a personable and 
experienced multilateral diplomat. 
 
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Security Audit 
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¶2. (U) The Security Audit Team (SAT) convened 18 to 21 July, 
which was the next stage of the broader Verification 
Information System-Industry (VIS-I) audit scheduled to be 
concluded in October 2006.  The full audit of the VIS-I 
module will include all Industry Declaration processing, as 
well as the Site Selection Module.  The October review will 
focus on integration of each Industry module, security, and 
document processing.  Due to the scope of the upcoming 
October audit, the SAT wanted to evaluate the Document 
Tracking System (DOTS) before the October audit.  DOTS is an 
expanded document system that incorporates the functionality 
of the existing stand-alone archive management system (AMS) 
and will be integrated into the VIS running on the Secure 
Critical Network (SCN).   Once fully integrated, it will 
provide the TS with links to the existing EDMS (electronic 
document management system) as well as report capability of 
the status of key documents processed by the TS.  The audit 
team found this module to be well designed and executed.  The 
TS will track documents that originate in-house as well as 
 
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received from State Parties.  Security logging is integrated 
with the e-Trust and Active Directory implementation and 
captures actions, dates of creation, and other critical 
elements from a confidentiality monitoring perspective.  DOTS 
also links to scanned images for staff reference. 
¶3. (U) The audit team also assessed TS implementation of the 
update/migration to e-Trust software.  This application 
replaced the CA Unicenter TNG software used to generate 
system-wide audit logs on the SCN.  The SAT found that this 
migration project was a success for both the TS technical 
staffs involved (ISB and OCS).  The project resulted in a 
timely delivery with minimal interruption of service, being 
executed over a weekend and totally transparent to the end 
user.  The process proved that the TS project team 
coordinated requirements and system specifications, performed 
an adequate risk assessment, conducted staff training, and 
tested the application prior to implementation.  While 
e-Trust logging has been used for only three weeks, the 
Secretariat is working on establishment of adequate filters 
 
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and was able to demonstrate that it is are capturing all 
relevant data for OCS.  OCS and ISB will continue to 
fine-tune the log file filters and have been notified that 
the SAT will be conducting an in-depth evaluation in October. 
 
¶4. (U) The TS development team continues to work together and 
is expecting to finalize the Industry and Site-Selection 
modules as per the original timetable.  The staff relayed 
some concern about two key positions that might be affected 
by tenure limits (those of Bento da Silva and Monica Bahl). 
Although the SAT did not feel it appropriate to specifically 
address this matter, the SAT did indicate informally to the 
DG that the existing level of expertise on the development 
team was a large factor in the project,s success.  The SAT 
also found that the development effort was no longer totally 
dependent on personalities, relaying instead on process.  The 
DG acknowledged that the staffing tenure was an issue, but 
noted that he had some latitude in extending contracts based 
on need.  The new project lead, Per Runn, has assumed a 
strong leadership role following the departure of former 
manager Ruth Mohlenkamp. 
¶5. (U) The development effort will include additional modules 
for inspection/mission planning and eventually will provide 
similar access to VIS for the Chem Demil Branch within 
Verification.  Hoorst Reeps and Per Runn both strongly 
supported leaving the VIS development team intact for a full 
year post-VIS deployment, to ensure that all bugs and any 
remaining issues could be resolved.  The SAT concurred with 
this, and informally recommended this to the DG. 
 
SANDERS SENDS. 
BLAKEMAN