Nuclear Detection Working Group

The Nuclear Detection Working Group (NDWG) was established in 2010 and since then it has worked to promote best practices to enhance our Partners nuclear detection capabilities. The NDWG Chair, currently held by the United Kingdom, oversees the work plan and sets the priorities of the working group. This presentation would highlight these priorities as well as available NDWG products and key outcomes from activities held since 2015. Some key elements of the envisioned presentation are included below. The NDWG Vision for 2017-2019: Promoting best practices for implementing and sustaining national nuclear detection architectures by creating opportunities for partners to present their national models, identify common detection challenges and potential solutions, and promote regional and international cooperation. Continuing to focus on building partners' capacity to develop, implement, and sustain detection strategies that effectively integrate policies, procedures, and capabilities into a coordinated government approach to detect illicit trafficking of nuclear and other radioactive materials out of regulatory control. Exercising the procedures and mechanisms that ensure partner nations gain the expertise needed to develop sustainable plans and capabilities, and support interoperability and coordination within and between partner nations during a nuclear security incident.